<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:54 AM, <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"><span class="">On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:37:54 -0700, Sean Bollin said:<br>
> I'm interested in getting started doing kernel dev.<br>
<br>
</span>Why? Fame? Fortune? It's a chick magnet? You're totally pissed off<br>
because suspend/resume is wonky on your laptop?<br>
<br>
If you *really* want to help, just get yourself a copy of the linux-next<br>
tree, build it every week or so, and file bug reports/patches if you hit<br>
something odd. We need code coverage testers more than we need random<br>
patches - and Grek KH will verify that most kernel releases, I manage to<br>
break it anywhere from 1 to 4 times a release just using it day-to-day on<br>
my main laptop (not even pointing trinity or iozone or any other stress<br>
tester at it). </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><div>I'd love to contribute this way.</div><div>This looks better than sending small code style fixes. </div></div><br></div></div>