* Re: Kernel first task
[not found] ` <1989501319.5722082.1625916179244@mail.yahoo.com>
@ 2021-07-10 11:30 ` Cláudio Maia
2021-07-10 15:12 ` Greg KH
2021-07-12 21:12 ` Valdis Klētnieks
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From: Cláudio Maia @ 2021-07-10 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Anton Baltser; +Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
On 10/07/21 12:22, Anton Baltser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get involved into Kernel Devolopment and confused about where I can take the first task to complete. AFAIK this is usually a code cleanup task, but what kind of code cleanup is available to do.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Anton Baltser.
For an easy to follow introduction on how to submit your first patch, you can watch this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4) by Greg Kroah-Hartman at FOSDEM 2010 entitled "Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch". I believe this is a good starting point to guide through the process.
Regards,
Cláudio Maia
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2021-07-10 11:30 ` Kernel first task Cláudio Maia
@ 2021-07-10 15:12 ` Greg KH
2021-07-12 21:12 ` Valdis Klētnieks
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From: Greg KH @ 2021-07-10 15:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Anton Baltser; +Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 11:22:59AM +0000, Anton Baltser wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get involved into Kernel Devolopment and confused about
> where I can take the first task to complete. AFAIK this is usually a
> code cleanup task, but what kind of code cleanup is available to do.
Look at drivers/staging/*/TODO for items to start out with.
Have fun!
greg k-h
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2021-07-10 11:30 ` Kernel first task Cláudio Maia
2021-07-10 15:12 ` Greg KH
@ 2021-07-12 21:12 ` Valdis Klētnieks
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From: Valdis Klētnieks @ 2021-07-12 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Anton Baltser; +Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
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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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