Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers

[Greg Freemyer]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to fix this or am I just unemployable.
> Cheers Nick

Get married and take your wife's name!

Being more realistic, get good at a specific subsystem and earn a good
reputation in that subsystem.  If you're lucky someone will get to
know your reputation and get you a shot regardless that you got off on
the wrong foot.

More importantly, except for kernel trainers like Robert, most
companies hire linux kernel subsystem developers, not linux kernel
developers.  Thus you need to find a part of the kernel you want to
delve into and get really good at just it.

You can also research who the companies are that employ kernel
developers and see which subsystems they are working in.  As an
example Redhat employs a couple of the XFS developers.  SUSE employs
one of the mdraid developers, etc.

Greg


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Greg Freemyer