From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751736AbdBOJXn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:23:43 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0219.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.219]:45158 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751695AbdBOJXl (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:23:41 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 50,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:967:973:988:989:1260:1263:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2525:2561:2564:2682:2685:2692:2731:2828:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4250:4321:5007:7904:9010:9025:10004:10400:10848:11026:11232:11658:11914:12043:12663:12679:12740:12760:12895:13069:13172:13184:13229:13311:13357:13439:13618:13845:14096:14097:14181:14659:14721:21080:21324:21433:21451:30012:30054:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: start36_5951bca9cf248 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2404 Message-ID: <1487150612.6214.48.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] staging: rtl8192u: Fixing coding style issues From: Joe Perches To: SIMRAN SINGHAL Cc: Greg KH , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 01:23:32 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <20170214201432.GA4150@singhal-Inspiron-5558> <1487103799.6214.27.camel@perches.com> <1487129480.6214.39.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.3-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 13:48 +0530, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote: > Joe, I am new to Linux kernel and just have basic knowledge of > C and C++. > For doing more than checkpatches I need to explore Linux kernel more, > so please suggest me some tasks that help me in exploring > Linux kernel, which helps me in building the better understanding of codes, > which I am finding difficult to understand so that I can do more than > just checkpatch. Linux kernel isn't a great project to learn c/c++ as it is a relatively old, complex project without a lo of obvious defects. see: http://kernelnewbies.org Make sure you read the kernel newbies lists and the kernel process help files in Documentation/process/. In the drivers/staging directory tree are many TODO files. Read some of them. List of kernel related bugs to fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=DEFERRED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bugidtype=include&chfieldto=Now&cmdtype=doit&emailassigned_to1=1&emailassigned_to2=1&emailcc2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailtype1=substring&emailtype2=substring&field0-0-0=noop&kernel_version_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc_type=substring&order=Reuse%20same%20sort%20as%20last%20time&query_format=advanced®ression=both&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&type0-0-0=noop