Looking for ways to contribute

Looking for ways to contribute

[ozlinux]

Hi, I am new here. I have a fair amount of experience with C/C++, with a
3D graphics background. I have been looking for ways to contribute,
particularly to networking, as that is what interests me, but I can't
find anything to work on. If anyone knows where to point me for this, it
would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Looking for ways to contribute

[Mario Marietto]

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Do you have some experience with FreeBSD ?

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 1:59 PM <ozlinux@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I am new here. I have a fair amount of experience with C/C++, with a
> 3D graphics background. I have been looking for ways to contribute,
> particularly to networking, as that is what interests me, but I can't
> find anything to work on. If anyone knows where to point me for this, it
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
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Re: Looking for ways to contribute

[Philipp Hortmann]

On 8/4/23 13:58, ozlinux@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I am new here. I have a fair amount of experience with C/C++, with a
> 3D graphics background. I have been looking for ways to contribute,
> particularly to networking, as that is what interests me, but I can't
> find anything to work on. If anyone knows where to point me for this, it
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
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Hi,
please read:

Get personal support for your first kernel patch
https://www.mail-archive.com/kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org/msg22219.html

And also the later email.

I have limited access to my mails during the next 8 days.

Bye Philipp

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Re: Looking for ways to contribute

[Richard]

I can recommend something I did:

Read and figure out network source code (whatever interests you in 
net/ipv4/ for example) and wheneever you have understood what a function 
does write some documentation for it (ideally in the kerneldoc format) 
and submit this doc as your patch.

Also, as a prerequisite, I recommend you to read "Linux Kernel 
Development" by Robert Love. It's important to get the fundamental 
differences to user space. For example the whole thing that there is 
process context and interrupt context. And what softirqs are.


-- Richard

On 04.08.23 13:58, ozlinux@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I am new here. I have a fair amount of experience with C/C++, with a
> 3D graphics background. I have been looking for ways to contribute,
> particularly to networking, as that is what interests me, but I can't
> find anything to work on. If anyone knows where to point me for this, it
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Kernelnewbies mailing list
> Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

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Re: Looking for ways to contribute

[ozlinux]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 01:29:15PM +0200, Richard wrote:

Okay, thanks so much. I'll be sure to give that a try.

> I can recommend something I did:
> 
> Read and figure out network source code (whatever interests you in net/ipv4/
> for example) and wheneever you have understood what a function does write
> some documentation for it (ideally in the kerneldoc format) and submit this
> doc as your patch.
> 
> Also, as a prerequisite, I recommend you to read "Linux Kernel Development"
> by Robert Love. It's important to get the fundamental differences to user
> space. For example the whole thing that there is process context and
> interrupt context. And what softirqs are.
> 
> 
> -- Richard
> 
> On 04.08.23 13:58, ozlinux@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Hi, I am new here. I have a fair amount of experience with C/C++, with a
> > 3D graphics background. I have been looking for ways to contribute,
> > particularly to networking, as that is what interests me, but I can't
> > find anything to work on. If anyone knows where to point me for this, it
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Kernelnewbies mailing list
> > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
> > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
> 
> _______________________________________________
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