From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: searching for a missing driver
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 08:05:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180523060521.GA15885@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180523022551.GA2481@hle-laptop.local>
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:25:51PM -0400, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading documentation about linux drivers development for
> quite a while now, but never did anything really useful of it. Lack of
> time, but most importantly lack of projects to apply this knowledge.
> Now I've got some spare time ahead of me, and it seems to be the
> right moment to start a kernel driver project.
>
> ... but I don't know exactly what kind of device driver I want to
> write, and what kind of device I want to work on.
It's best to find a device you care about, that does not work on Linux,
to do something like this, as you are going to be working on it for a
while.
But the problem is, as you are finding out, that almost everything
already "just works" in Linux. Turns out Linux supports more hardware
than any other operating system, sorry :)
Try digging around in shops that sell "odd hardware", that might be the
best way to find something like this.
good luck!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-23 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-23 2:25 searching for a missing driver Hugo Lefeuvre
2018-05-23 6:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-05-23 6:26 ` Ozgur Kara
2018-05-23 6:48 ` Greg KH
2018-05-23 7:01 ` Ozgur Kara
2018-05-23 8:11 ` Greg KH
2018-05-24 2:26 ` Hugo Lefeuvre
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