From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: me@tobin.cc (Tobin C. Harding) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:34:37 +1000 Subject: Don't know where to start linux kernel programming In-Reply-To: <20170823225705.GB5193@kroah.com> References: <96047b43-7bb5-0328-e5ac-a972dacd391f@partner.samsung.com> <10334.1503421171@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20170822173912.GA1350@kroah.com> <20170823225705.GB5193@kroah.com> Message-ID: <20170825023437.GA10042@eros> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 03:57:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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 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... looks like it may be drivers/staging/rtlwifi