On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Umair Khan wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 07:37:54PM -0700, Sean Bollin wrote: > I read the website and searched for "TODO" in driver/staging as well as ran a > few of the perl style checks - but couldn't really find something as a good > intro.
What is wrong with those as valid "first timer" tasks? Did you try to do any of them?
What first timer tasks are you referring to exactly ? I've almost browsed the whole kernelnewbies.org but couldn't find any task list.
You could run scripts/checkpatch.pl on the drivers/staging directory and try to fix the warnings generated by checkpatch. You could also try to fix sparse warnings once you have the basics right. You might find these useful - https://www.linux.com/news/software/lDinux-kernel/804403-three-ways-for-begi... http://kernelnewbies.org/Outreachyfirstpatch Shraddha