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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2022 12:10:37 +0530
From:   Deepak R Varma <drv@mailo.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: patches for staging:media drivers
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:27:32PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:10:21AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> I cannot say anything about the media subsystem, but for networking
> patches, i will be much more willing to help somebody going from
> Outreach to being a full kernel developers if they decide to take on
> something more than just some Coccinelle changes. If it looks like you
> have the hardware and want to make it better, have a vision where the
> driver should go, then you are likely to get more help from me. So if
> media drivers are what you interested in, go buy some hardware which
> uses one of the drivers in staging, look at the TODO file, and submit
> bigger patches than just -1 to -ENOMEM.

Hello Andrew,
Thank you so much for your kind advice and willingness to help a newbie
become a valued kernel developer. I am committed to acquire necessary
knowledge and skills to contribute more than current cleanup and minor
correction patches. I am sure that the upcoming Coccinelle based project
work [if I am shortlisted] will be much more complex and meaningful.

I will explore the staging directory to identify a hardware I can afford.
I would welcome suggestion on a driver that is not much expensive and
complex to start with. Anything for the networking subsystem???

Thank you once again!
./drv

>
>      Andrew
>