Looking for easy first-timer tasks

[Umair Khan]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:54 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:37:54 -0700, Sean Bollin said:
> > I'm interested in getting started doing kernel dev.
>
> Why?  Fame? Fortune? It's a chick magnet? You're totally pissed off
> because suspend/resume is wonky on your laptop?
>
> If you *really* want to help, just get yourself a copy of the linux-next
> tree, build it every week or so, and file bug reports/patches if you hit
> something odd. We need code coverage testers more than we need random
> patches - and Grek KH will verify that most kernel releases, I manage to
> break it anywhere from 1 to 4 times a release just using it day-to-day on
> my main laptop (not even pointing trinity or iozone or any other stress
> tester at it).



I'd love to contribute this way.
This looks better than sending small code style fixes.
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