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I am just wondering how does anyone get further involved with Linux kernel development? How do you get selected to be able to push through patches etc. to the official kernel? Who authorizes who to be able to do so?

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I am just wondering how does anyone get further involved with Linux kernel development? How do you get selected to be able to push through patches etc. to the official kernel? Who authorizes who to be able to do so?

Anyone can write and post kernel patches. There is not really a concept of "people authorized to push patches." In Linux, Linus *pulls* patches that he thinks are useful. He generally pulls patches from maintainers of various areas, who have already reviewed them and decided they are worthwhile. So you just have to convince the maintainer of the area you're changing that your patch is correct and useful. Here are some good hints about how to get started:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=c379a2a6949f1c1cac04fb6f185c633512f37061;hb=HEAD

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Quoted 3 lines · On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:49:02 +1000 Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

I am just wondering how does anyone get further involved with Linux kernel development? How do you get selected to be able to push through patches etc. to the official kernel? Who authorizes who to be able to do so?

Please see Documentation/HOWTO and the contents of Documentation/development-process in the kernel source tree; that should tell you everything you need to know.

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jon

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