Don't know where to start linux kernel programming

[valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu (valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu)]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:48:42 -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey said:

> An observation that may just mean I haven't stumbled upon it yet is
> that it would be nice to... stumble upon... a list of kernel problems
> that *kernelnewbies* could cut their teeth on. I do understand that
> this is a naive wish list item due to the nearly every nanosecond
> changing complexity of things. :)

Such a thing existed 10 or 15 years ago.  Unfortunately for the newbies, there
are very few problems that newbies can attack, because if they were that
simple, somebody would already have *done* them.

One thing in particular that pretty much killed the kernel-janitors project
(which did cleanup of code) was a change in the rules for kernel API changes.
Before, somebody could add a new/changed API, and the janitors would change all
the uses in the tree.  We now require that a patch series that changes an API
has to also fix all in-tree uses of the API.

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