Hi Kaur, I would recommend you take a look at this videos by Greg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4. He has explained how to get started to contribute Linux Kernel.
Good Luck !!! On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:07:44 -0800, Satwantjit Kaur said: > > I am a final year B.Tech (CSE) student from NIT Jalandhar. I like > > programming and I know C and C++ programming languages. I have worked > > on IPC and socket programming in C/C++. I wish to take up a project in > > Linux Kernel development and contribute to it. Can somebody guide me > > further? > > I'll be blunt. Unless you *already* have an interest or desire in a > particular > part of the kernel (for instance, filesystems, or networking, or memory > management, etc), you probably aren't a good fit for actually contributing > to > the Linux kernel. You might be able to hack up some code that will > satisfy a > professor for a project, but actual contributions are usually held to a > higher > standard. > > Consider the difference between "I'd like to write a book, but have no idea > what to write about, can somebody suggest whether to write fantasy, or a > romance, or non-fiction about sports, or something", and "I'm thinking > about a > story about the adventures of a Roman centurion fighting the Gauls, but > need > help making it historically accurate". > > Pretty much everybody will agree that the first book is doomed, because > the author obviously isn't connected that much to their project. The > second? > That has a *much* higher chance of producing a good story, simply because > the author has a vision for the project that they can stick to. > > And that affects mentoring - nobody who knows anything about writing > fantasy > novels will be interested in helping somebody who hasn't even decided if > they want to write about fantasy or scuba diving. Somebody who knows they > want to write about a Roman centurion fighting the Gauls? At that point, > it's worth the 5 minutes for a Roman history expert to give suggestions > and references to the way things were then.... > > And the Linux kernel is the same way. > > Now, if you have a professor that's *insisting* on a Linux kernel project, > that's an entirely different problem. ;) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > -- ------------------------------ Best, Surendra Patil
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