From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755780AbaIZT05 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:26:57 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com ([209.85.223.169]:50325 "EHLO mail-ie0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753997AbaIZT04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:26:56 -0400 Message-ID: <5425BDFE.6050908@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:26:54 -0400 From: nick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Lang CC: lkml Subject: Re: Help Out and Issues with the Community References: <5424BB1E.80605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14-09-25 10:20 PM, David Lang wrote: >> Hello Developers, >> For the last week or two I have been trying to contact people for help and/or learning in order to help out >> more. I am unable to get any emails back from them, I am assuming this is due to my issues with the community. >> If someone would like to explain a way to either resolve this or help me me learn the community rules and how >> to do things the right way that would be great. > > Going over the archives a bit, it looks like there are a lot of people who have taken the time to reply to you. > > It looks like you are falling into a common trap of looking at particular bug reports or FIXME items and trying to silence them. But you are doing so without understanding the code or functionality being provided. As a result, you are doing exactly what people are afraid that static checking will result in, a local fix to silence the checker that doesn't actually fix the overall problem. > > In addition to the various places you've already been pointed at, I'd suggest that you look at the kernel janitors pages and mailing list (http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors), the linux-kernel list has a huge membership and a high volume of traffic, so learning as you work here is not always the best thing to do. > > David Lang David, That wasn't my idea, it was to help out and ask questions if I don't understand something first. I will start with kernel janitors and go from their. Thanks Nick