Don't know where to start linux kernel programming

Umair Khan omerjerk at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 11:36:49 EDT 2017


Hi Greg,

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:59:31PM -0400, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:48:42 -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey said:
>>
>> > An observation that may just mean I haven't stumbled upon it yet is
>> > that it would be nice to... stumble upon... a list of kernel problems
>> > that *kernelnewbies* could cut their teeth on. I do understand that
>> > this is a naive wish list item due to the nearly every nanosecond
>> > changing complexity of things. :)
>>
>> Such a thing existed 10 or 15 years ago.  Unfortunately for the newbies, there
>> are very few problems that newbies can attack, because if they were that
>> simple, somebody would already have *done* them.
>
> Not really, please look at drivers/staging/*/TODO there are loads of
> simple things left to do, with more being added all the time (a huge new
> wireless driver just landed that could use lots of cleanups.)

Which wireless driver exactly?

-Umair



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