From 04ae21e93e503b02548551fb7fe18d98d69a2798 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dhananjay Balan Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:46:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Linux 4.12 commits. --- blog/2017-08-02-linux-4.12.markdown | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/2017-08-02-linux-4.12.markdown diff --git a/blog/2017-08-02-linux-4.12.markdown b/blog/2017-08-02-linux-4.12.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..662a94d --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2017-08-02-linux-4.12.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Linux-4.12 " +date: 2017-08-02 +comments: true +categories: + - linux + - kernel + - systems + - code +--- + +Linux 4.12 was released few weeks ago. Its always nice to get a new version of kernel, but this time it was extra sweet, I managed to get some tiny commits merged to the release. + +This was because of the [Eudyptula Challenge](http://eudyptula-challenge.org/), a program a quite kernel person has been running that helps people get started with Linux kernel development. I'm now at the 18 of 20 programming tasks. Every challenge is mailed to you (In plain email) after you finish the last one, and each step is a learning experience. You quickly realize that you can't solve things by plain google-stackoverflow duos, and eventually you discover the magical `Documentation` folder in linux tree. + +Three out of my four commits have been style fixes, and the last one was a locking discrepancy in one of the staging drivers. [The links are here.](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/log/?qt=author&q=dhananjay+balan) + +There is a certain feel of happiness when I get to understand when things are implemented in kernel. I'm really looking forward to poking the code and do more than trivial commits. + +