From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg.freemyer@gmail.com (Greg Freemyer) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 18:49:59 -0400 Subject: Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers In-Reply-To: References: <12636.1407268471@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > Is there any way to fix this or am I just unemployable. > Cheers Nick Get married and take your wife's name! Being more realistic, get good at a specific subsystem and earn a good reputation in that subsystem. If you're lucky someone will get to know your reputation and get you a shot regardless that you got off on the wrong foot. More importantly, except for kernel trainers like Robert, most companies hire linux kernel subsystem developers, not linux kernel developers. Thus you need to find a part of the kernel you want to delve into and get really good at just it. You can also research who the companies are that employ kernel developers and see which subsystems they are working in. As an example Redhat employs a couple of the XFS developers. SUSE employs one of the mdraid developers, etc. Greg -- Greg Freemyer