Don't know where to start linux kernel programming

[greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 09:06:49PM +0530, Umair Khan wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:59:31PM -0400, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Not really, please look at drivers/staging/*/TODO there are loads of
> > simple things left to do, with more being added all the time (a huge new
> > wireless driver just landed that could use lots of cleanups.)
> 
> Which wireless driver exactly?

The "new" one in the linux-next tree (it's also in the staging-next
branch of the staging.git tree on git.kernel.org).  Don't remember the
exact name, it should be easy to find...