Re: [Outreachy] cleanup opportunities

Samuel Abraham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy
Message-ID <CADYq+fbpR-T9TDGi6NWZcMW58sag1UbHYnEm9nx1ix0__2nmNg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM Julia Lawall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> If you are wondering what would be interesting to work on, you can
> consider:
>
> drivers/staging/gpib
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs
> drivers/staging/vme_user
>
> For all of these, you can find a number of cleanup opportunities with
> checkpatch.  Remember though that checkpatch is just offering suggestions.
> You need to decide whether what it highlights is a real problem.  For this
> it may be helpful to look at other similar kernel code.  Sometimes it may
> be clear that what checkpatch is complaining about is indeed likely a
> problem, but it's not clear what to do about it.  At this point, the goal
> is to learn how to submit patches, write a good commit message, etc.  So
> don't hesitate to make change that seem quite trivial to get started.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> julia
>
Thank you very much for the guidance. It's very well appreciated.
I'll indeed send my questions if I have any

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