Re: Tips for a Newcomer

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:19:19PM -0400, Logan Blyth wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I am looking for some tips on starting as a kernel janitor, and I
> was hoping to find out the general work flow that people use. From
> what I can tell, we search through the kernel-next git repo, then
> either by grep, ctags, or some other method?

I use cscope with vim.  There is a "make cscope" build target.

> We are looking for
> things in the KernelJanitors/Todo, possibly stuff turned up by
> sparse? Maybe a different static analyser like from clang?

Yeah.  That's a lot of it.  I don't think anyone is doing clang so
you could find some unique bugs that way.  Do you know how to get
clang working for the kernel?

> 
> From there we make sure the patch applys cleanly and mail the
> maintainer, copying the LKML and Kernel-Janitors?

Yep.  Use scripts/get_maintainer.pl.  Send your first patch to
kernel janitors without CC'd the maintainer so we can check it for
you.

regards,
dan carpenter