Netconsole target recovery: my first non-trivial kernel patch

Earlier this year I got my first non-trivial kernel patch merged. It was a series of 7 commits and all in all it took over 4 months and 11 revisions to get it into good shape to be merged. This wasn&rsquo;t my first kernel contribution: I had previously landed a small patch introducing new tests, and written about the kernel development workflow . &#xA; Before talking a bit about the details of…