Need help to get started

Need help to get started

[m vivek]

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Hi,

I just joined the mailing list. Excited to contribute to linux kernel but
finding it difficult to figure out where to start.

Any help would be appreciated.

PS: I've gone through some articles online which suggest to start with
improving the coding style and refer to TODO from drivers/staging/.

Thanks
-Vivek.

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Re: Need help to get started

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:08:53PM +0530, m vivek wrote:
> PS: I've gone through some articles online which suggest to start with
> improving the coding style and refer to TODO from drivers/staging/.

That's a great place to start, why not do that?

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Re: Need help to get started

[Valdis Klētnieks]

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On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:08:53 +0530, m vivek said:

> I just joined the mailing list. Excited to contribute to linux kernel but
> finding it difficult to figure out where to start.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Pretty much anything under drivers/staging is fair game - it's *all* code
that needs fixing (if it didn't need fixing to be up to most kernel standards,
it wouldn't be in drivers/staging :)

Also, you probably want to go read this:

https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2017-April/017765.html

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Re: Need help to get started

[Rishi Bhushan Agrawal]

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On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:57 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:08:53 +0530, m vivek said:
>
> > I just joined the mailing list. Excited to contribute to linux kernel but
> > finding it difficult to figure out where to start.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Pretty much anything under drivers/staging is fair game - it's *all* code
> that needs fixing (if it didn't need fixing to be up to most kernel
> standards,
> it wouldn't be in drivers/staging :)
>
> Also, you probably want to go read this:
>
>
> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2017-April/017765.html
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See if this helps https://lkw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Regards,
Rishi B. Agrawal

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