From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: xerofoify@gmail.com (Nick Krause) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 19:43:56 -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 6:49 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > 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 I was really worried , that I would have to give up on this goal, but thanks for the advice. I am interested in working in schedulers, file systems and networking. If you guys want to help me , just tell me how to get started and again to all the maintainers, I feel terrible about wasting your time. Sorry and thanks A lot, Nick