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Hi All,
I know it seems bugging but after googling a lot and following links i'm still not able to find any place to get bugs of beginner level that i can fix and start contributing in kernel development.
I also don't know that whom should i contact to get a mentor. Please help me out.

Gaurav

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Quoted 7 lines · gaurav

Hi All,
I know it seems bugging but after googling a lot and following links i'm still not able to find any place to get bugs of beginner level that i can fix and start contributing in kernel development.
I also don't know that whom should i contact to get a mentor. Please help me out.

Just pick something from staging and look at the Sparse warnings.

Send your first patch to this list instead of to the maintainer and we can review it for you.

regards,
dan carpenter

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Hi Dan,

I have a similar question, but unfortunately I don't know what "staging" is or what a "Sparse" warning looks like. This seems pretty trivial so I'm wondering if there a primer webpage that I have overlooked. Would you happen to have a link?

Sorry to bug you, and thank you for your help.

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Quoted 7 lines · gaurav

Hi All,
I know it seems bugging but after googling a lot and following links i'm still not able to find any place to get bugs of beginner level that i can fix and start contributing in kernel development.
I also don't know that whom should i contact to get a mentor. Please help me out.

Just pick something from staging and look at the Sparse warnings.

Send your first patch to this list instead of to the maintainer and we can review it for you.

regards,
dan carpenter

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Quoted 8 lines · Shaun Laing

Hi Dan,

I have a similar question, but unfortunately I don't know what "staging" is or what a "Sparse" warning looks like. This seems pretty trivial so I'm wondering if there a primer webpage that I have overlooked. Would you happen to have a link?

Sorry to bug you, and thank you for your help.

staging is the drivers/staging/ directory. It's where crap code goes.

Here is an article on Sparse: http://lwn.net/Articles/205624/

regards,
dan carpenter

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Hi,

Quoted 6 lines · Shaun Laing

Hi Dan,

I have a similar question, but unfortunately I don't know what "staging" is or what a "Sparse" warning looks like. This seems pretty trivial so I'm wondering if there a primer webpage that I have overlooked. Would you happen to have a link?

Check the kernel source for drivers/staging folder.

Regards.

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Hi,

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I have a similar question, but unfortunately I don't know what "staging" is or what a "Sparse" warning looks like. This seems pretty trivial so I'm wondering if there a primer webpage that I have overlooked. Would you happen to have a link?

Documentation/sparse.txt in the kernel sources.

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Hi All,
I know it seems bugging but after googling a lot and following links

i'm

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still not able to find any place to get bugs of beginner level that i

can

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fix and start contributing in kernel development.
I also don't know that whom should i contact to get a mentor. Please help me out.

Just pick something from staging and look at the Sparse warnings.

Send your first patch to this list instead of to the maintainer and we can review it for you.

regards,
dan carpenter

Sorry for late reply Dan, Thanks for your suggesstion and now i'm actually working to fix bug. will email my fix soon. thanks

Regards
Kumar Gaurav