<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Valdis,<br><br></div>Thanks for these steps,<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:05 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" target="_blank">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:32:59 +0530, you said:<br>
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> I am a computer science student. I want to contribute to the open source<br>
> projects, debugging. As it is my first time, i need some guidance.<br>
<br>
(a) You're better off replying to the list, as you then get answers from<br>
others besides me. Redirecting back to the list.<br>
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(b) If you want to actually *help*, and have it set on being the kernel rather<br>
than any one of thousands of deserving userspace projects, your best bet is<br>
<br>
1) learn to build and install a self-compiled kernel.<br>
2) just get a copy of the 'linux-next' tree<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do we need to git clone 'linux-next' tree or 'linus' tree ?<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
3) Update and build kernels every few days<br>
4) watch them fail (and fail they will - I have at least 3 bugs I've tripped<br>
over in the past week to report still)<br>
5) Use 'git bisect' to identify the patch that caused the failure, and report<br>
it to the appropriate people.<br>
<br>
Quite frankly, the kernel needs less half-baked patches from novices, and more<br>
qualified testers. And you can get up to speed on testing a heck of a lot<br>
faster than you can learn all the ins and outs of kernel code hacking.<br>
And if you're ambitious, you can always add "(6) include a patch fixing<br>
the problem" once you get better at it...<br>
<br>
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