On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Gideon D'souza wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I'm just another hacking hoping to hack on the kernel. > > I've played just a wee bit with toy OS's (from osdev.org), stuff like > MikeOS etc. I've just begun reading Robert Love's - Linux Kernel > Development. > > I have two questions: > > 1> I've got myself setup with Fedora 20 and I'm good to go, however Im > somewhat scared by how contrived the kernel bugs are, and I'm > wondering what kind of work can I do? Or any suggestions as to what I > can code or write to learn something, maybe write to a log file > everytime a process is created to understand that bit better? IOW, > what toy projects can I do to explore various aspects of the kernel. > > 2> I started reading a linux device driver series, but how is a real > driver written, can a random person get a technical hardware doc and > go write a driver or is this something done only by a companies that > manufactures hardware? Also, read carefully the documentation about submitting patches (Documentation/SubmittingPatches) and do everything that it says. And try sending any patches to yourself and applying them before sending them to the mailing list. The get_maintainers.pl script helps you figure out who to send your patches to. julia -- 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
