On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:14:02PM +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Apologies for that forwarded email which I hurriedly sent without > editing here! > > I am an undergraduate student in ECE(3rd year) and wish to contribute to linux-wireless > drivers. I am familiar with the kernel development process and have many > patches accepted in the past 2 months with variety of tools used such as > coccinelle, Kasan, smatch, sparse and checkpatch. > > My past contributions can be found here: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?qt=grep&q=Himanshu+Jha > > Also, James Cameron suggested me to *not self promot* and other useful > stuff. But I'm not self promoting and the purpose is to avoid the > initial steps that you generally recommend to a newbie like reading the > conding guideline, submitting patches, learn Git etc. Last time I'll try that privately. Now I'm publically outed for it. I keep making this mistake. For completeness, what I had said was; > > Self promotion is not often acceptable. For background on > > culture, see http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html and Himanshu said they wanted to avoid being told the initial steps again, to which I replied; > > Good point. However even as a grey beard, I can still get told > > these things; it reflects more on them than me. > > > > An alternate method would be to say what you have done without > > using any words that measure or evaluate what you have done. However, I am curious to know if there will be a GSoC engagement by Linux Foundation in the linux-wireless scope. It would be fun to watch and learn. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/
