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On Aug 5, 2013 10:24 PM, "Sumeet pawnikar" <<a href="mailto:sumeet4linux@gmail.com">sumeet4linux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Valdis,<br>
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> Thanks for these steps,<br>
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> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:05 PM, <<a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> 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>
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>> (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>
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>> 1) learn to build and install a self-compiled kernel.<br>
>> 2) just get a copy of the 'linux-next' tree<br>
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> Do we need to git clone 'linux-next' tree or 'linus' tree ?<br>
Linux next for submitting patches<br>
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>> 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>
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>> 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>
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