Contributing to the device driver staging section of the linux tree

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:57:28PM +0530, Kashyap Gada wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I want to re start the code clean up stuff in the staging branch of drivers in
> the linux tree. I have done this before some time back on the 2.6 branch. I
> want to get back to atleast start off again (I am learning developing device
> drivers) to be active in the community.
> 
> My question is that the latest linux kernel is 3.x there have been so many
> versions of it since 2.6. So how to decide which branch we should be working on
> and which is relevant enought in todays time.

You always have to work on the latest development kernel tree, as we do
not do new work on older releases.

See the Documentation/kernel_development/ documentation for how this all
works.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h