From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" Subject: Re: after effects of a kernel API change Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:44:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20070118094411.GB29695@Ahmed> References: <292693080701172015n736a269fl6945ba4fe19d8174@mail.gmail.com> <20070118051026.GA29695@Ahmed> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Rajat Jain Cc: Daniel Rodrick , kernelnewbies , Linux Newbie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:05:53AM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote: > >> > >> Is there any way volunteers like me can help in this exercise? > > > >See the /APIchanges in the Kernel Janitors TODO list > >http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo > > > [...] > 1) How do I make sure if some one is NOT working on any of the > mentioned bullet points? Who coordinates? On what mailing list? Check latest trees to make sure the work is not duplicated. espicially trees like -mm and subsystem ones. > 2) Do any patches for the above Todo list have the chances of getting > merged into the mainstream kernel? Who approves? I suppose the > respective maintainer of the driver / subsystem getting affected? I advise lurking (following/reading) the list for at least 2 or 3 weeks and you'll automatically understand how the "system" works. Also check: $KERNEL_TREE/Documentation/HOWTO $KERNEL_TREE/Documentation/SubmittingPatches $KERNEL_TREE/Documentation/CodingStyle -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish-07.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs