On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Rohit Sarkar wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 04:23:10PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:55:17PM +0530, Rohit Sarkar wrote:
Hi Dan, First things first, I know that sending private emails is frowned upon but I was unsure if this would belong in the list.
This does belong on the list. Especially the kernel-janitor list.
Added kernel-janitors and kernel-newbies to the thread.
Secondly I will keep this as short as possible. (I know you are lazy :) )
I have been interested in kernel development for a long time and want to contribute to the community while learning and having fun. Till now I have sent some minor patches: [1]: Fixes typo [2]: Checkpatch fix [3]: Replaces snprintf with scnprintf
I now would like to work on something that is not too trivial (like a typo/checkpatch fix) and not too complex. I am finding it difficult to come up with something substantial to work on.
The various intern project probably have ideas. Julia Lawall may know.
Sure, will get in touch with her.
It would really help me if you could point me in a direction where I could focus my efforts on.
What I always tell people is to pick a small driver from staging. The iio drivers are pretty small. Just try to fix it as much as possible. Read it and re-read it and patch it and patch it. As you go you will learn more until you are the expert of that driver. Try to get it moved out of staging.
This sounds nice. Would this require any external hardware for testing?
regards, dan carpenter Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply.
Dan's suggestions are fine. You may want to take a fairly recent driver from staging (to check using git log) to be sure that the work has not already been done by others. julia