From: Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:31:17 +0000
Subject: [KJ] New to Kernel Work - Need Direction
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Hello,

I'm really new to kernel work.  I've spent some time looking at the kernel 
sources and things, and decided that it'd be a good idea to try and do some 
work with Kernel Janitors rather than try and jump in and code up something 
new.

First I need something to do.  I looked at the current to-do list and decided 
that convincing the XFS folks to use negative error codes couldn't be 
terribly difficult.  I'm thinking of making the modifications to the code 
myself (assuming I'm correct in thinking that the XFS code is in fs/xfs in 
the source directory).

My second question is about development environments.  I like KDevelop, and 
wish to use it to work on the kernel.  Does anyone have any tips or 
suggestions for a good graphical way to work with the Kernel?  I'd rather not 
try and bludgeon my way through it with KATE and writing makefiles and 
caveman debugging and the likes of that, however, the kernel is a gigantic 
code base, and I'm not sure how to approach organizing it in a manner which 
is good for the total and complete newbie (me).

Thanks for your time, and please tell me if this isn't the appropriate place 
to start with getting to know and work on the kernel.

- -- Lord Sauron
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