Getting Started

[anish singh]

On Aug 5, 2013 10:24 PM, "Sumeet pawnikar" <sumeet4linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Valdis,
>
> Thanks for these steps,
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:05 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:32:59 +0530, you said:
>>
>> > I am a computer science student. I want to contribute to the open
source
>> > projects, debugging. As it is my first time, i need some guidance.
>>
>> (a) You're better off replying to the list, as you then get answers from
>> others besides me.  Redirecting  back to the list.
>>
>> (b) If you want to actually *help*, and have it set on being the kernel
rather
>> than any one of thousands of deserving userspace projects, your best bet
is
>>
>> 1) learn to build and install a self-compiled kernel.
>> 2) just get a copy of the 'linux-next' tree
>
>
> Do we need to git clone 'linux-next' tree or 'linus' tree ?
Linux next for submitting patches
>
>>
>> 3) Update and build kernels every few days
>> 4) watch them fail (and fail they will - I have at least 3 bugs I've
tripped
>> over in the past week to report still)
>> 5) Use 'git bisect' to identify the patch that caused the failure, and
report
>> it to the appropriate people.
>>
>> Quite frankly, the kernel needs less half-baked patches from novices,
and more
>> qualified testers.  And you can get up to speed on testing a heck of a
lot
>> faster than you can learn all the ins and outs of kernel code hacking.
>> And if you're ambitious, you can always add "(6) include a patch fixing
>> the problem" once you get better at it...
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Kernelnewbies mailing list
>> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kernelnewbies mailing list
> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20130805/7ad42851/attachment.html