Hi,<br><br>I have always wanted to contribute, but I am not a coder, I am a Linux Admin, so I know some bash, perl and php. I came across the following video : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4&feature=related</a><br>
<br>So I decided even if I clean code it would hopefully make some contribution. I followed the video and came to the following file that needed some correction: drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c. "<a href="http://checkpatch.pl">checkpatch.pl</a>" gave 2 errors, both ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)", so I fixed the errors.<br>
<br>I did a "git diff" and it showed the corrections, from the video the next step is to build the file, I believe the command must be "make M=drivers/staging/bcm/", but I get the following errors:<br>
<br> ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.<br> include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.<br> Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.<br>
<br><br> WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/Module.symvers<br> is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.<br><br> LD drivers/staging/bcm//built-in.o<br> Building modules, stage 2.<br>
/home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/scripts/Makefile.modpost:42: include/config/auto.conf: No such file or directory<br>make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'. Stop.<br>make: *** [modules] Error 2<br>
<br>The error says " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it", but I am a bit nervous to try this, I would please like some guidance before continuing.<br><br>I think the issue is related to my OS's kernel headers, from the kernel README I am not sure what I need to do ?<br>
<br>I did a bit of searching the net and did not really find some answers, well that made sense to me. <a href="http://kernelnewbies.org">kernelnewbies.org</a>, not sure what is going on there, get a lot of "<strong>This page does not exist yet. You can create a new empty page,
or use one of the page templates. Before creating the page, please check
if a similar page already exists."</strong><br><br>Regards<br>Gregg<br><br><br><br><br>