Re: Where to start

Shaun Laing
2013-07-22T13:14:19Z

Hi Dan,

I have a similar question, but unfortunately I don't know what
"staging" is or what a "Sparse" warning looks like. This seems pretty
trivial so I'm wondering if there a primer webpage that I have
overlooked. Would you happen to have a link?

Sorry to bug you, and thank you for your help.

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 08:50:28AM +0530, gaurav wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I know it seems bugging but after googling a lot and following links i'm still
>> not able to find any place to get bugs of beginner level that i can fix and
>> start contributing in kernel development.
>> I also don't know that whom should i contact to get a mentor.
>> Please help me out.
>>
>
> Just pick something from staging and look at the Sparse warnings.
>
> Send your first patch to this list instead of to the maintainer and
> we can review it for you.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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