Need good starting point

[Ankit Pandey]

Thanks a lot, I'll check them out.

On Wed, 16 Feb, 2022, 12:28 am Rohan Puri, <rohan.puri15 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 9:01 PM Ankit Pandey <itsankitkp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have gone through tutorials at kernelnewbies and was able to compile,
> build and run the kernel on qemu. But I'm stuck now. I tried to look for
> style fixes in drives/staging/ but most of them look good (and fixes that
> they need are not trivial).
> > I will be glad if someone can give me pointers for a good starting point
> to contribute.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ankit
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> couple of pointers,
>
> books to read - LDD, UTLK
> start writing simple modules
> don't focus on style fixes
> try to find your area of interest, like file systems, drivers, memory
> management, etc
> understand the concepts, code in that area
> start with small modifications
> once done all these, ask the maintainer of the module if he/she has
> any simple work to begin with
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> - Rohan
>
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