On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:07:22 -0500, "Dr. George E. Moore" said: > I'm unclear as to how via kernel-janitors, I can support patches to the > kernel. Are bug/documentation anomalies already identified in some > archive, or are we expected to choose a subsystem, search for such > anomalies as described in the KernelJanitor/Todo page, acknowledge our > willingness to make fixes and submit patches to > [email protected]? What kernel subsystems are current being > reviewed and patched by kernel-janitors?
Pretty much none. At one time, people would add new/changed APIs to the kernel, and kernel-janitors would go around and fix the usage to match the new API. However, a number of years ago, we started requiring that patch sets that change an API also include patches to change all the users, so there's a lot less cleanup work of that sort to do. However, if you're wanting to get your feet wet, there's a *lot* of really bad code in drivers/staging/ that needs a lot of care before it can move to the main part of the kernel tree. Everything under drivers/staging/ should have its own TODO file listing things that are *known* to need fixing in the driver - and there's probably a half-ton of bad coding in the driver that isn't listed in the TODO. Greg KH is *always* looking for people to dive in and provide patches. :)
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