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Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 03:12:33 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, rdunlap@...otime.net, tytso@....edu, hch@...radead.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@...r.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:46:28AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: >... > 2. How to find things to work on as a beginner >... > Finding bugs to fix is easy. Here are some ways to find useful work to > do: >... But fixing them is not so easy... Sorry for being destructive, but we do not have easy coding tasks for newbies. If it's easy it's already fixed, and dozens of people following your advice to look at e.g. compile or sparse warnings will only generate much noise, but they'll have a hard time finding anything they are capable to fix. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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