Looking for easy first-timer tasks

Looking for easy first-timer tasks

[Sean Bollin]

Hello, I compiled the latest kernel and booted up using it on my Ubuntu
distro.

I'm interested in getting started doing kernel dev.

Can you point me at some easy first-timer tasks?  I do know C.

I read the website and searched for "TODO" in driver/staging as well as ran
a few of the perl style checks - but couldn't really find something as a
good intro.
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Looking for easy first-timer tasks

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 07:37:54PM -0700, Sean Bollin wrote:
> I read the website and searched for "TODO" in driver/staging as well as ran a
> few of the perl style checks - but couldn't really find something as a good
> intro.

What is wrong with those as valid "first timer" tasks?  Did you try to
do any of them?

Looking for easy first-timer tasks

[Umair Khan]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 07:37:54PM -0700, Sean Bollin wrote:
> > I read the website and searched for "TODO" in driver/staging as well as
> ran a
> > few of the perl style checks - but couldn't really find something as a
> good
> > intro.
>
> What is wrong with those as valid "first timer" tasks?  Did you try to
> do any of them?
>
> What first timer tasks are you referring to exactly ? I've almost browsed
> the whole kernelnewbies.org but couldn't find any task list.
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[Shraddha Barke]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Umair Khan wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>       On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 07:37:54PM -0700, Sean Bollin wrote:
>       > I read the website and searched for "TODO" in driver/staging as well as ran a
>       > few of the perl style checks - but couldn't really find something as a good
>       > intro.
>
>       What is wrong with those as valid "first timer" tasks?? Did you try to
>       do any of them?
>
>       What first timer tasks are you referring to exactly ? I've almost browsed the whole kernelnewbies.org but couldn't find any task
>       list.

You could run scripts/checkpatch.pl on the drivers/staging directory and 
try to fix the warnings generated by checkpatch. You could also try 
to fix sparse warnings once you have the basics right.

You might find these useful -
https://www.linux.com/news/software/lDinux-kernel/804403-three-ways-for-beginners-to-contribute-to-the-linux-kernel
http://kernelnewbies.org/Outreachyfirstpatch

Shraddha
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> 
>

Looking for easy first-timer tasks

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:37:54 -0700, Sean Bollin said:
> I'm interested in getting started doing kernel dev.

Why?  Fame? Fortune? It's a chick magnet? You're totally pissed off
because suspend/resume is wonky on your laptop?

If you *really* want to help, just get yourself a copy of the linux-next
tree, build it every week or so, and file bug reports/patches if you hit
something odd. We need code coverage testers more than we need random
patches - and Grek KH will verify that most kernel releases, I manage to
break it anywhere from 1 to 4 times a release just using it day-to-day on
my main laptop (not even pointing trinity or iozone or any other stress
tester at it).
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[Umair Khan]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:54 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:37:54 -0700, Sean Bollin said:
> > I'm interested in getting started doing kernel dev.
>
> Why?  Fame? Fortune? It's a chick magnet? You're totally pissed off
> because suspend/resume is wonky on your laptop?
>
> If you *really* want to help, just get yourself a copy of the linux-next
> tree, build it every week or so, and file bug reports/patches if you hit
> something odd. We need code coverage testers more than we need random
> patches - and Grek KH will verify that most kernel releases, I manage to
> break it anywhere from 1 to 4 times a release just using it day-to-day on
> my main laptop (not even pointing trinity or iozone or any other stress
> tester at it).



I'd love to contribute this way.
This looks better than sending small code style fixes.
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[Doug Wilson]

>> > I'm interested in getting started doing kernel dev.

 Since you do know C, drivers/staging/* would be a good place.

- doug