From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 08:05:21 +0200
Subject: searching for a missing driver
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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:25:51PM -0400, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading documentation about linux drivers development for
> quite a while now, but never did anything really useful of it. Lack of
> time, but most importantly lack of projects to apply this knowledge.
> Now I've got some spare time ahead of me, and it seems to be the
> right moment to start a kernel driver project.
> 
> ... but I don't know exactly what kind of device driver I want to
> write, and what kind of device I want to work on.

It's best to find a device you care about, that does not work on Linux,
to do something like this, as you are going to be working on it for a
while.

But the problem is, as you are finding out, that almost everything
already "just works" in Linux.  Turns out Linux supports more hardware
than any other operating system, sorry :)

Try digging around in shops that sell "odd hardware", that might be the
best way to find something like this.

good luck!

greg k-h