From: bjorn@mork.no (Bjørn Mork)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Advice on first patch
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:25:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqz7hpqf.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADLW2vztD4oRT_=h-1Tq9R=Gep+JwK+tbF3Rgo2QEGMLfo7k7w@mail.gmail.com> (Matthew Walster's message of "Tue, 2 Oct 2012 12:34:32 +0100")
...but davem wanted to keep it as documentation. Who could have
imagined that? That's how things work. Just find something else to fix.
Sooner or later you will get a patch accepted :-)
But you might consider taking his (hidden) advise and look for something
more challenging than checkpatch output. There are plenty of bugs to
fix and drivers to write. You might already own some hardware which
isn't fully supported? Try to find out why, and see if you can fix it.
Not everything is fixable this way, as lack of documentation often is
the problem. But there are more than enough things that are.
Bj?rn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 10:56 Advice on first patch matthew at walster.org
2012-10-02 10:56 ` [PATCH] net: ethernet: clean out braces / old code (found via checkpatch) matthew at walster.org
2012-10-02 16:16 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-10-03 9:13 ` Matthew Walster
2012-10-03 13:12 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-10-04 16:13 ` Matthew Walster
2012-10-04 18:54 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-10-02 11:29 ` Advice on first patch Bjørn Mork
2012-10-02 11:34 ` Matthew Walster
2012-10-03 9:25 ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2012-10-03 13:40 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
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