From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265722AbUGMSRQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:17:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265724AbUGMSRQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:17:16 -0400 Received: from snota.svorka.net ([194.19.72.11]:42691 "HELO snota.svorka.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265722AbUGMSRN (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:17:13 -0400 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: eldiablo@svorka.net via snota X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20st (Clear:RC:1(194.19.72.135):. Processed in 0.090786 secs) process 11968 Message-ID: <40F42715.9010705@svorka.net> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:16:53 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Espen_Fjellv=E6r_Olsen?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040705) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Holt CC: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [2.6] Module writing? References: <40F40DE9.5010909@svorka.net> <20040713174403.GA17868@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040713174403.GA17868@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robin Holt wrote: >What are you specifically thinking of doing? Is there a part of the >kernel you are specfically interested in? I might be able to point >you at some projects that could use some help. They presume that >the person doing the work has some experience in programming. The >kernel pieces are fairly well hammered on by many experience kernel >programmers, but alot of the drivers need some attention. > >If I were you, I think I would try to find a set of drivers that >has not been getting updated recently and look to contribute to the >cleanup effort in those drivers. > >Good Luck, >Robin Holt > >On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:29:29PM +0200, Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote: > > I have started to write some kernel modules for fun now, but they are a > bit empty :) > it's just some printk's and some other simple things. > > I wonder if there are any good howtoes out on the Net somewhere, I've > read a bit on: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg, but I'm afraid it's a bit > outdated(?) > > I'm only doing this for fun(at this time, maybe it becomes serious > when i become a bit older;) ) so i don't want to spend any > money on a book, or on an course. > > > Best regards > Espen Fjellvfær Olsen > eldiablo@svorka.net > Norway > > > > I'm new to all this with kernel hacking, so writing any drivers would be quite difficult for me i think. I'm just trying to learn where to start, and what to start with, I'm not a guru in C, but I'm learning ;) But if anyone have a driver which need some looking after I could gladly look at the TODO or something :)