getting started

[esmaeil mirzaee]

Hi

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Julie Sullivan
<kernelmail.jms at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also driver staging is always looking for more contributors and you
>> can get a good feel for what is going on on the mailing list:
>> devel.linuxdriverproject.org
This link is unavailable.
>> (devel at linuxdriverproject.org)
>>
>> Read the TODO lists for various drivers in the in the kernel tree in
>> drivers/staging/ and pick something you would like to do. Don't forget
>> to read the relevant files in Documentation/ for preparing/submitting
>> patches, etc, and make sure you cc the relevant maintainers when
>> sending patches to their drivers to the list.
>>
>> If you're not doing it already by far the easiest way is to use git to
>> manage your kernels, you will be expected to test your patches against
>> linux-next or some branch specified by a particular maintainer which
>> you can remote track (I think it's staging-next on Greg's tree for
>> staging, but it wouldn't hurt to ask the maintainer once you have the
>> patch ready).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Julie
>>
>
> Oh, and another suggestion - find out what hardware you have and find
> out what corresponding drivers cater for it in the kernel. You can
> then join the appropriate mailing lists (filtering on their throughput
> if it's large) in order to catch any new patches or bugs that appear
> there for your hardware. You can then work on testing the
> patches/helping fix the bugs, which is especially helpful when done by
> people who have the actual hardware to test with. If it's new stuff in
> staging, I think the staging people would particularly appreciate
> this.
>
> Cheers
> Julie
>
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