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[188.150.77.196]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 2adb3069b0e04-5a2b145eff6sm1634333e87.76.2026.03.30.05.51.32 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:51:32 +0200 From: Linus Probert To: Dan Carpenter Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Status of kernel-janitors? Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: Dan Carpenter , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 03:25:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 02:10:49PM +0200, Linus Probert wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been a long time builder and fiddler of kernel source. Running > > self-compiled kernels and pulling in patches before official release > > etc. Bog standard for most of you I assume. > > > > I'd love to dedicate some spare to help the project. Like so many > > others. > > > > The kernel-janoitors "project" does pop up in various resources such as > > kernelnewbies and I think it might have been mentioned in one of the > > Linux Foundations free courses. But links to potential homepages seem to > > be dead and resources are sometimes dated. > > > > I read somewhere that this has mostly evolved into janitorial work in > > drivers/staging. TODOs were mentioned. > > > > So the actual question. In my mind janitorial code work is a good place > > to dip ones toes when starting out. Is this the right mailing list to > > ask about such things? Any suggestions to find an area where ones > > assistance would be welcome? > > > > Starting in driver/staging is good advice. I'll start looking around there then. Seems to be a good amount of TODO files in there. Close to 1-to-1. > > I'm aware of checkpatch.pl but for many drivers diverging from these > > rules seem intentional and just blindly fixing checkpatch warnings are > > not helpful to the maintainer. > > Yeah. After a while, you're left with only false positives or > we introduced new rules and the old code is sort of grandfathered > and the maintainers wouldn't appreciate an update. > > > Open source is a lot of work so the goal would be to be helpful while > > not stealing too much attention from concerned parties. > > I tried to introduce the concept of, if you have an idea but don't > have the time to implement it right away, then write KTODO in your > email so people can search for that and get a list of ideas but it > hasn't really caught on. A pity that didn't catch on. Could have served as a good stepping stone to get some young blood into the project. > regards, > dan carpenter > Thank you for the quick reply.