About Low Hanging Fruits

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon Jul 13 13:09:20 EDT 2015


On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:13:28 +0530, Mayur Patil said:

>   I just want to know like other Open source projects is there a thing in
> linux kernel as Low hanging fruits.

The Linux kernel has been worked over by professional programmers for more
than a decade, and as a result the number of things that can be attacked
by a relatively unskilled newcomer is fairly low.

Your best place to start is probably under drivers/staging, where we put
all the stuff that's *not* up to standards yet.  Each driver should have
a TO-DO file describing what needs doing, and Greg HK is always willing to
take checkpatch style fixups for the staging tree (many other maintainers
*don't* want style patches that aren't connected to other work - if there's
other active work, they can introduce merge conflicts, and if nobody's working
on something, it's best to not touch stable code...)
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