From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751695Ab2GDMuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:50:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.syd.comcen.com.au ([203.23.236.77]:1302 "EHLO smtp.syd.comcen.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750869Ab2GDMuG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:50:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4FF43BBE.80201@spin.net.au> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:49:02 +1000 From: Chris Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120604 Firefox/13.0 SeaMonkey/2.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernel official involvement Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-comcen-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-comcen-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comcen-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.227, required 4, AWL 0.27, BAYES_00 -2.60, RDNS_NONE 0.10) X-comcen-MailScanner-From: chrisjones@spin.net.au Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am just wondering how does anyone get further involved with Linux kernel development? How do you get selected to be able to push through patches etc. to the official kernel? Who authorizes who to be able to do so? Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproject@gmail.com also on oracle.kerneldev@gmail.com and netbsd.kerneldev@gmail.com OpenSUSE Linux x86_64 (PC)|Android (Smartphone)|Windows 7 (Laptop)|Windows XP (Gaming) Linux kernel developer|Solaris kernel developer|BSD kernel developer Lead Developer of SDL|Lead Developer of Nest Linux|Gamer and Emulator nut|Web Services|Digital Imaging Services Controllers: Rapier V2 Gaming mouse|Logitech Precision|PS3 controller|XB360 controller|Logitech Attack 3 j/stick Emulators: Fusion|Gens|ZSNES|Project64|PCSX-R|Stella|WinVICE|WinUAE|DOSBox PGP Fingerprint: 4E38 0776 B380 63C8 F64F A7D6 736C CF56 42A4 FB35