patches for staging:media drivers

Greetings to all.
My name is Deepak R Varma and I was part of the recent Outreachy internship round. I learned during this program that patches for the media drivers were prohibited to be included in the Outreachy effort due to lack of bandwidth for the maintainers to respond on those.

The Outreachy round is now over but I am continuing to work on code improvement and changes. I would like to know if it is okay for me to now identify opportunities in the media drivers and send patch proposal for your kind consideration. I intend to send couple of Coccinelle identified code improvements as patches.

Please let me know.

Thank you,
./drv

Hi,

Quoted 12 lines · Deepak R Varma

Greetings to all.
My name is Deepak R Varma and I was part of the recent Outreachy internship round. I learned during this program that patches for the media drivers were prohibited to be included in the Outreachy effort due to lack of bandwidth for the maintainers to respond on those.

The Outreachy round is now over but I am continuing to work on code improvement and changes. I would like to know if it is okay for me to now identify opportunities in the media drivers and send patch proposal for your kind consideration. I intend to send couple of Coccinelle identified code improvements as patches.

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Please let me know.

I won't say no but since the media maintainers will need to apply them, the problem is the same.

Neil

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Thank you,
./drv

Hi,

Quoted 12 lines · Deepak R Varma

Greetings to all.
My name is Deepak R Varma and I was part of the recent Outreachy internship round. I learned during this program that patches for the media drivers were prohibited to be included in the Outreachy effort due to lack of bandwidth for the maintainers to respond on those.

The Outreachy round is now over but I am continuing to work on code improvement and changes. I would like to know if it is okay for me to now identify opportunities in the media drivers and send patch proposal for your kind consideration. I intend to send couple of Coccinelle identified code improvements as patches.

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Please let me know.

I won't say no but since the media maintainers will need to apply them, the problem is the same.

Quoted 15 lines · Neil Armstrong

Hi,

Quoted 12 lines · Deepak R Varma

Greetings to all.
My name is Deepak R Varma and I was part of the recent Outreachy internship round. I learned during this program that patches for the media drivers were prohibited to be included in the Outreachy effort due to lack of bandwidth for the maintainers to respond on those.

The Outreachy round is now over but I am continuing to work on code improvement and changes. I would like to know if it is okay for me to now identify opportunities in the media drivers and send patch proposal for your kind consideration. I intend to send couple of Coccinelle identified code improvements as patches.

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Please let me know.

I won't say no but since the media maintainers will need to apply them, the problem is the same.

Yeah. Me either. Those rules are for Outreachy so they don't apply to anyone else, but at the same time no one is going to Ack your patches without seeing them and especially for a subsystem they don't maintain.

I always try to think about if maintainers will want my patches. Like I sometimes see people returning -1 instead of -ENOMEM but, you know, unless it reaches user space it's not technically a bug. You can't go around fixing everyone's bad taste. But everyone likes bug fixes.

regards,
dan carpenter

I don't mind taking patches for media staging drivers as long as:

1) they are not for atomisp, and
2) they are not for deprecated drivers (drivers/staging/media/deprecated/)

Quoted 15 lines · Neil Armstrong

Hi,

Quoted 12 lines · Deepak R Varma

Greetings to all.
My name is Deepak R Varma and I was part of the recent Outreachy internship round. I learned during this program that patches for the media drivers were prohibited to be included in the Outreachy effort due to lack of bandwidth for the maintainers to respond on those.

The Outreachy round is now over but I am continuing to work on code improvement and changes. I would like to know if it is okay for me to now identify opportunities in the media drivers and send patch proposal for your kind consideration. I intend to send couple of Coccinelle identified code improvements as patches.

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Please let me know.

I won't say no but since the media maintainers will need to apply them, the problem is the same.

Yeah. Me either. Those rules are for Outreachy so they don't apply to anyone else, but at the same time no one is going to Ack your patches without seeing them and especially for a subsystem they don't maintain.

I always try to think about if maintainers will want my patches. Like I sometimes see people returning -1 instead of -ENOMEM but, you know, unless it reaches user space it's not technically a bug. You can't go around fixing everyone's bad taste. But everyone likes bug fixes.

On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:10:21AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:

I cannot say anything about the media subsystem, but for networking patches, i will be much more willing to help somebody going from Outreach to being a full kernel developers if they decide to take on something more than just some Coccinelle changes. If it looks like you have the hardware and want to make it better, have a vision where the driver should go, then you are likely to get more help from me. So if media drivers are what you interested in, go buy some hardware which uses one of the drivers in staging, look at the TODO file, and submit bigger patches than just -1 to -ENOMEM.

Andrew

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On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:10:21AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:

I cannot say anything about the media subsystem, but for networking patches, i will be much more willing to help somebody going from Outreach to being a full kernel developers if they decide to take on something more than just some Coccinelle changes. If it looks like you have the hardware and want to make it better, have a vision where the driver should go, then you are likely to get more help from me. So if media drivers are what you interested in, go buy some hardware which uses one of the drivers in staging, look at the TODO file, and submit bigger patches than just -1 to -ENOMEM.

Hello Andrew,
Thank you so much for your kind advice and willingness to help a newbie become a valued kernel developer. I am committed to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to contribute more than current cleanup and minor correction patches. I am sure that the upcoming Coccinelle based project work [if I am shortlisted] will be much more complex and meaningful.

I will explore the staging directory to identify a hardware I can afford. I would welcome suggestion on a driver that is not much expensive and complex to start with. Anything for the networking subsystem???

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On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:27:32PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

Staging drivers for network tend to be USB dongles for WiFi. Some of those drivers need throwing away and starting again, others need less work. If you are interested in that, i would suggest asking on [email protected].

Another option might be pi433? The problem with that is, i don't know how it fits into the rest of the network stack? Could it maybe fit under ieee802154? Or is it just unique and needs to do its own thing?

Andrew