Beyond kernel-janitor

Hi All,

After watching Greg's video on "How to write and submit your first patch",the discussions that happened over kernel newbie mailing list and the assorted information scattered in the kernel Documentation directory, I was able to set up my Linux box for sending janitorial related patches (mostly checkpatch.pl cleanup) [1] and I'm happy that some of those got merged in the upstream kernel I'd like to contribute even more and I was wondering how to proceed further. My work experience has been mostly in the computer network domain, so I think I've somewhat high level view of the Linux networking subsystem, but I do not know the exact areas where I should concentrate. For a beginner like me, trying to start at the core network elements is daunting. On the other hand, I do not have a networking device for which I can try to come up with a minimal device driver. Therefore In order to concentrate my work on Network subsystem of Linux, what should be the possible entry points for me. I'm planning to get myself this book [2] on Linux Network Internals. While this would take a while for me to digest all the stuff, are there any other places where I can just Jumpstart ?

[1] http://marc.info/?a=135084530900004&r=1&w=2
[2] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002558.do

Looking forward for your suggestions.

-Amit

Hi,
This is a good and detailed free document about Linux Kernel Networking, 186 pages, February 2012:

"Linux Kernel Networking" by Rami Rosen.

http://media.wix.com/ugd//295986_a3dcb13a2f46d15cb75abab021a239da.pdf

Found here: (also some other good networking lectures).
http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen

rgs
Kevin Wilson