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From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: USB Start Learning Codebase
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:58:40 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1410170256210.19425@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541B8619.5010909@gmail.com>

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, nick wrote:

> Hey Guys,

> I am asking here about how to start with the usb stack as I am
> interested in learning that alongside the btrfs codebase.

> Nick

   personally, i suggest immediately submitting malformed, unnecessary
and gramatically broken patches to the USB mailing list, so that the
maintainers can politely and patiently explain to you where you went
wrong -- i've always thought that was a *great* way to learn the
complexities of a kernel subsystem.

  that was just cruel, wasn't it?

rday

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-17  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-19  1:26 USB Start Learning Codebase nick
2014-10-17  9:58 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]

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