I have always wanted to contribute, but I am not a coder, I am a Linux Admin, so I know some bash, perl and php. I came across the following video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4&feature=related
So I decided even if I clean code it would hopefully make some contribution. I followed the video and came to the following file that needed some correction: drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c. "checkpatch.pl" gave 2 errors, both ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)", so I fixed the errors.
I did a "git diff" and it showed the corrections, from the video the next step is to build the file, I believe the command must be "make M=drivers/staging/bcm/", but I get the following errors:
ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
LD drivers/staging/bcm//built-in.o
Building modules, stage 2.
/home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/scripts/Makefile.modpost:42: include/config/auto.conf: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
The error says " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it", but I am a bit nervous to try this, I would please like some guidance before continuing.
I think the issue is related to my OS's kernel headers, from the kernel README I am not sure what I need to do ?
I did a bit of searching the net and did not really find some answers, well that made sense to me. kernelnewbies.org, not sure what is going on there, get a lot of "This page does not exist yet. You can create a new empty page, or use one of the page templates. Before creating the page, please check if a similar page already exists."
Regards
Gregg
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