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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ivan D <ivdivd0@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: KernelProjects still alive?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:27:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190822162750.GA2538@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAXeK256YhSqtKTpBdaxv0OAijpQtF4HNxV=JJEYJbfHjYMuA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 05:59:45PM +0300, Ivan D wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to do some kernel development (driver, non-trivial feature,
> etc.). I'm fairly experienced overall and wrote proprietary kernel
> modules at my job, so not interested in newbie/janitor stuff.
> KernelProjects looked like a perfect place for this, but it seems long
> abandoned.
> 
> Is there a substitute, or may be someone can pinpoint me at something
> to work on in particular? Could be support for old but still
> possible-to-buy hardware, or anything non-trivial really. I've worked
> mostly with ARM if that matters, including fairly low level things.

Work on drivers/staging/*/TODO to get one of those drivers out of
staging into the "real" part of the kernel.  That's usually a
non-trivial task and for some of them (wifi drivers) you can find the
device on ebay to be able to test your changes.

good luck!

greg k-h

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2019-08-22 14:59 KernelProjects still alive? Ivan D
2019-08-22 16:27 ` Greg KH [this message]

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