On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:19:19PM -0400, Logan Blyth wrote: > Hello list, > > I am looking for some tips on starting as a kernel janitor, and I > was hoping to find out the general work flow that people use. From > what I can tell, we search through the kernel-next git repo, then > either by grep, ctags, or some other method? I use cscope with vim. There is a "make cscope" build target. > We are looking for > things in the KernelJanitors/Todo, possibly stuff turned up by > sparse? Maybe a different static analyser like from clang? Yeah. That's a lot of it. I don't think anyone is doing clang so you could find some unique bugs that way. Do you know how to get clang working for the kernel? > > From there we make sure the patch applys cleanly and mail the > maintainer, copying the LKML and Kernel-Janitors? Yep. Use scripts/get_maintainer.pl. Send your first patch to kernel janitors without CC'd the maintainer so we can check it for you. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
