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J. Day" Cc: Linus Probert , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Status of kernel-janitors? Message-ID: 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 09:27:25AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2026, 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? > > > > 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. > > 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 mention this once in a while ... *many* years ago, I wrote some > admittedly hacky scripts that scanned the kernel source tree looking > for what I considered "obvious" cleanups. One of those cleanups was to > abbreviate the numerous calculations of the length of an array > sprinkled throughout the source code, There is a coccinelle check for this already. I don't know why it hasn't been done to NUM_ELEMENTS(). scripts/coccinelle/misc/array_size.cocci regards, dan carpenter