On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:03:36 -0400, Harsha Vardhan said:
> So far I have spent a lot of time dreaming to be a kernel hacker without
> doing much ,
1) What Greg said.. :)
2) Go read this:
https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2017-April/017765.html
And yes, *why* you want to
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 5:25 PM Harsha Vardhan
wrote:
>
> perfect ! I will do it that way then.
>
> besides that, generally if you are making changes to drivers , then the
> responsibility of testing is on the author of the patch right ? if you don't
> have the device how would you test such
perfect ! I will do it that way then.
besides that, generally if you are making changes to drivers , then the
responsibility of testing is on the author of the patch right ? if you
don't have the device how would you test such things ? I would assume
other subsystems like memory will have some
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:03:36PM -0400, Harsha Vardhan wrote:
> Any thoughts on whether I should just do a checkpatch.pl change as my first
> patch ?
You should do a checkpatch.pl change as your first patch :)
That way you can focus on the process more than the technical aspects of
the patch
Hello team ,
Sorry for a vague question.
So far I have spent a lot of time dreaming to be a kernel hacker without
doing much , but I realised its geting too late and now I want to pick my
first patch to work,
I have decided to address the TODO at drivers/staging/grebus/TODO :
" * Make pwm.c use
