learning about linux kernel development

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Fri Mar 14 14, Matt Graham wrote:
> On 2014-03-14 00:31, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> >http://www.eudyptula-challenge.org/
> >
> >Basically, you sign up and you get tasks sent to you that you complete
> >and then send the results back. It starts with a creating a very
> >simple
> >kernel module, and then builds from there.
> 
> Interesting.  I wonder how true "A set of convoluted shell scripts
> that are slow to anger and impossible to debug." is.  I would think
> that at least part of automated building/testing of this would
> require gcc and something a bit more data-structure-fluent than
> shell, but I Could Be Wrong.

Some of it is automated, but some also requires human interaction I'm
sure. There also are tools within the kernel tree that they can use
with some things they are trying to teach like scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Jerry

> 
> I might try this if it ever gets less hectic/annoying at work.  I've
> successfully fixed one bug in a 3rd-party kernel module, after
> all.[0]  I'd rather not bother a human with kernel-newbieish
> mistakes if possible, so I hope most of this challenge doesn't
> require someone at this organization to do stuff.
> 
> [0] The module maintainer wrote a better patch 24 hours later.
> Well, he had much more experience with the code, so that's no
> surprise.
> 
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