From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ruben@mrbrklyn.com (Ruben Safir) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:48:57 -0400 Subject: Get Back Into Kernel Work In-Reply-To: <20150315125521.GA2193@levex-pc.home.ilevex.eu> References: <55050BD9.7010508@gmail.com> <20150315125521.GA2193@levex-pc.home.ilevex.eu> Message-ID: <5505A9E9.6000009@mrbrklyn.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On 03/15/2015 08:55 AM, Levente Kurusa wrote: > Hello, Nick. > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:34:33AM -0400, nick wrote: >> Greetings All, >> After my terrible results before and getting banned from the list due to these results, >> I am wondering if there is any work in the USB or Networking Subsystem I can start with. >> Further more recently I read Essential Kernel Drivers so I have some idea of how >> to write drivers now and want to get my feet wet. In addition if I am still not >> trusted yet,that's OK too. :) > > Well, ideally what you should do is look through drivers/staging and > select a driver that looks interesting to you and has some work that > needs to be done, then you get a hardware for that particular driver. > Please do not skip the step where you actually get the hardware, given > your previous behavior I think we all can agree that is likely to happen > though... Surprise us! ;-) If you have the hardware, you can run tests > on it, stress test it or boot into Windows and see what the Windows > driver does that the current Linux driver does not do. > > Hopefully the hardware itself won't cost too much and is easily obtainable > using Amazon or Ebay. > > Hope it helps, > Levente > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > Did this get hijacked?