Getting your code upstream can be hard. Putting forth this new shiny thing you've made and are hopefully proud of and presenting it to a bunch of scruffy old Linux kernel maintainers to be looked over as a horse on sale can be tough emotional labor. It can also be an immense learning opportunity, a chance to show the world what you are capable of and a door step to a whole new world. Or at the very least, it makes for some really good war stories. This talk will describe the why's, how's, do's an don'ts and give you a front row seats view to the up streaming in Linux of a big hunk of code that spent a long life out of tree.