From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dinolinux Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:14:22 +0000 Subject: [KJ] Need to get some very basic things sorted out Message-Id: <433AB34E.90509@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Hey! If you noted my last message and thougt that it was very noob, don't count on any more advancement here. ;-) The thing is that I need help to get started. I'm in the process of learning C and I need to know how the kernel patching and distribution works. 1 - I've looked into the kernel-janitor TODO list and I don't exactly understand lines like this: /Audit return codes (and handle failure correctly) for: /(What does this mean???)/ - request_region() /(This one was tricky)/ /Where do I have to look for the code? Do I have to go to the _entire_ kernel tree? 2 - How do I start writing patches? This doesn't tell me much: /Before attacking any of these, we suggest sending a few patches in advance to see if you are doing something wrong, or if someone else is already doing same work. Read related threads in the mailing list archive. /Which patches? Where do I find a TODO list of patches that need to be done? The lkml mailing list don't say me much. I hope this wasn't _too_ noob :-) Dinolinux _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors