I'd like to contribute but I don't know how...

[Tobin C. Harding]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 09:25:39PM +0000, Alex Arvelaez wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:12:14AM +0000, Alex Arvelaez wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:20:07PM -0500, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:33:08 +0000, Alex Arvelaez said:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to contribute to the linux kernel eventually but I'm not sure
> > > 
> > > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2017-April/017765.html
> > > 
> > > > how, I grabbed a copy of the source code and I found a FIXME that looks
> > > > like I could fix:
> > > >
> > > > /* File: /usr/src/linux/tools/perf/util/string.c
> > > >  * FIXME: replace this with an expression using log10() when we
> > > >  * find a suitable implementation, maybe the one in the dvb drivers...
> > > >  */
> > > 
> > > Step 0:  Verify that the comment still matches the code, *and* that the change
> > > is still desired.  Hint:  Why do they want log10()? What does the current code
> > > do? What, if anything, will break if you change it?
> > 
> 
> I went ahead and used log10() from -lm, everything seems to work
> properly from what I can see. I made a patch with my changes should
> I send that to the linux-kernel mailing list for feedback?

Documentation/process/ is your friend.


	Tobin