On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 07:46:25AM +0000, Kai Krakow wrote:
Should I contact the original author first?
Do consider contacting the original author. I think it's polite, and ideally they will be willing to work to upstream it themselves. If not, then they might offer you guidance as to what could be wrong with the patch, or how to improve it to go upstream.
Andrew