Don't know where to start linux kernel programming

[Tobin C. Harding]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 03:57:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 09:06:49PM +0530, Umair Khan wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The "new" one in the linux-next tree (it's also in the staging-next
> branch of the staging.git tree on git.kernel.org).  Don't remember the
> exact name, it should be easy to find...

looks like it may be drivers/staging/rtlwifi