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From: o@zgur.org (Ozgur Kara)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 09:26:31 +0300
Subject: searching for a missing driver
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23.05.2018, 09:06, "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>:
> 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 :)

:) 

I think seen the drivers/staging section in the kernel source. 
you can find a driver in the development phase.
for example, some new generation embedded modules and electronic devices don't work on Linux.

ps = raspian

Regards

Ozgur

> 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