Re: [Outreachy Info] Ask for help finding cleanups

["Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>]

On giovedì 16 marzo 2023 14:16:56 CET Sumitra Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 04:49:20PM -0700, Alison Schofield wrote:
> > Hi Applicants,
> > 
> > We want to support you finding cleanups. Today I spent some time
> > looking through staging and am working up a small todo list that
> > may be useful.
> > 
> > I posted one such cleanup to Menna because I saw them submit a
> > couple of attempts at a first patches.
> > 
> > I think that Kloudifold, Khadija, and Sumitra are busy iterating on
> > their first patches. Keep going! Ask for help finding your second
> > patch if needed.
> 
> Hi Alison,
> 
> My first patch is accepted. I will appreciate if you could help me to find a
> second patch.

I don't want to answer for Alison, however I would like to point out that in 
this same thread there are several suggestions, both from Alison and Julia, on 
how to find tasks in "driver/staging".

Scroll through the thread again and see if it helps you find more tasks. 
Alison's first post explains an effective way to find something in drivers/
staging

Thank you,

Fabio

PS: I think applicants shouldn't overlook Julia's post about certain macros 
evaluating in container_of(). As Julia suggested, you can work on converting 
these macros into function definitions. 

Furthermore, this kind of work would help to understand the working and 
implementation details of container_of(), itself a macro used a lot in the 
drivers and core subsystems of the entire Kernel.

Isn't anyone interested in this kind of tasks? Please have a look at https://
lore.kernel.org/outreachy/124d2ef9-6f1d-2652-c88d-161f1bc06443@inria.fr/

> Regards,
> 
> Sumitra
> 
> > Anyone else who wants help in finding their first patch, please reach
> > out. I imagine their are some folks exploring here, that I haven't
> > met on the list yet.
> > 
> > Finally, it seems we won't be holding to the traditional 10 cleanup
> > patch requirement this round! Please continue your efforts and I'll
> > redirect you towards projects after a 'few' cleanup patches are
> > accepted into staging.
> > Thanks,
> > Alison