From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Anton Baltser <antonbaltser@yahoo.com>
Cc: "kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel first task
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:12:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <250742.1626124365@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1989501319.5722082.1625916179244@mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 11:22:59 -0000, Anton Baltser said:
> I'm trying to get involved into Kernel Devolopment and confused about where I
> can take the first task to complete.
There's always low-hanging fruit in drivers/staging. The various drivers there
*should* have a TODO. And of course pretty much everything in drivers/staging
needs typo fixes and fixing formatting, so those are always easy targets - just
don't blindly fix checkpatch.pl warnings without checking that the fix actually
makes the code better - there's been plenty of submitted patches for "goes past
column 80" that just made things uglier.
If you're feeling more ambitious, go through the TODOs - and clean out
entries that have already been taken care of. This might not be a good
thing for a first-time kernel hacker, as you'll need some experience with
git to really sort out what's been done.
You should also go read this:
https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2017-April/017765.html
and then ask yourself *why* you're wanting to submit patches.
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2021-07-10 11:30 ` Kernel first task Cláudio Maia
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