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From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: m vivek <bitu.kv@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Need help to get started
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 02:26:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403385.1582615591@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALcqQcO8TVbFkzaksEf4wiJnmorYj64wCYCuqyGty7Jh15xiOA@mail.gmail.com>


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On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:08:53 +0530, m vivek said:

> I just joined the mailing list. Excited to contribute to linux kernel but
> finding it difficult to figure out where to start.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Pretty much anything under drivers/staging is fair game - it's *all* code
that needs fixing (if it didn't need fixing to be up to most kernel standards,
it wouldn't be in drivers/staging :)

Also, you probably want to go read this:

https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2017-April/017765.html

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-25  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-25  6:38 Need help to get started m vivek
2020-02-25  7:10 ` Greg KH
2020-02-25  7:26 ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2020-03-02  7:25   ` Rishi Bhushan Agrawal

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