When a kernel change causes the interface that the kernel exposes to
userspace to change, it is recommended that you send the information or
a patch to the manual pages explaining the change to the manual pages
-maintainer at mtk-manpages@gmx.net.
+maintainer at mtk.manpages@gmail.com.
Here is a list of files that are in the kernel source tree that are
required reading:
Cross-Reference project, which is able to present source code in a
self-referential, indexed webpage format. An excellent up-to-date
repository of the kernel code may be found at:
- http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/
+ http://users.sosdg.org/~qiyong/lxr/
The development process
- ACPI development tree, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git
- - Block development tree, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
+ - Block development tree, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git
- DRM development tree, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
bugs reported by other people. Not only you will help to make the kernel
more stable, you'll learn to fix real world problems and you will improve
your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing
-bugs is one of the best ways to earn merit amongst the developers, because
+bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because
not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs.
To work in the already reported bug reports, go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org.