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From: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>
To: fdmanana@gmail.com, Philippe Loctaux <phil@philippeloctaux.com>
Cc: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Question]: Contributing to btrfs
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 06:02:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456142520.3587.3.camel@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL3q7H7Ty4R8dQO=MWayn3xzROjRub7uzuGVdM7zMCfU0As1Eg@mail.gmail.com>

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> 1) You don't learn anything by doing them. You don't learn nothing
> about btrfs internals, filesystems in general, kernel programming in
> general, general programming in C, etc. It ends up being only a waste
> of time for you;

It is useful for one reason. If you would like to get used to the workflow of kernel development,
this seems to be useful for a lot of people. In fact, Linus himself has encouraged this.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-22 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-20 21:09 [Question]: Contributing to btrfs Philippe Loctaux
2016-02-20 22:40 ` Philippe Loctaux
2016-02-21  6:14   ` Duncan
2016-02-22  1:18   ` Qu Wenruo
2016-02-22  7:26     ` Philippe Loctaux
2016-02-22  7:34       ` Qu Wenruo
2016-02-22  7:42         ` Philippe Loctaux
2016-02-22 10:47       ` Filipe Manana
2016-02-22 12:02         ` Simon Quigley [this message]
2016-02-22 13:29           ` Filipe Manana
2016-02-22 14:45             ` Simon Quigley
2016-02-23  1:32               ` Qu Wenruo
2016-02-23  2:07                 ` Simon Quigley
2016-02-23  2:20                   ` Qu Wenruo
2016-02-22 16:45             ` Philippe Loctaux
2016-02-22 12:18         ` David Sterba
2016-02-22 16:41           ` Philippe Loctaux
2016-02-22 17:15             ` David Sterba
2016-02-22 11:34 ` David Sterba
2016-02-22 16:38   ` Philippe Loctaux

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