5.16 Kernel Development Statistics • Hacker News Board

Re: 5.16 Kernel Development Statistics

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:28 AM UTC

marcan_42 wrote: post #10

stolen_biscuit wrote: post #2

How would an enthusiast developer even begin to contribute code to the kernel? It seems quite a daunting task

You just go and do it - it's just sending out an email. You don't need to introduce yourself, sign up anywhere, or do anything particularly fancy. You do need to write code that works and will be accepted, and follow the expected protocol when submitting it. There's a lot of information on the process out there (some of it obsolete), but really it boils down to: - git clone the kernel (latest release or latest RC usu…

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Re: 5.16 Kernel Development Statistics

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Post by INTPenis » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 9:35 AM UTC

This is fascinating but how accurate is this? Because Ping-Ke Shih is credited with the lines related to the rtw89 driver, but looking at their github repo[1] I see no such name in the contributors.

Did Ping-Ke just merge the driver and get credited for it? Or are they behind the lwfinger account?

Hard to tell but I'd like to buy them a beer or two for that driver, my laptop thanks them.

Also interesting to see a fellow Swede Johan Almbladh in the top 5. Apparently this guy is the founder of AnyFi that are trying to deploy Wifi towers in Indonesia. Looking at some of his commits he also works with the Loongson CPU architecture that came out of China many years ago. For a while Richard Stallman was using a laptop with one of those CPUs.

1. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89

Re: 5.16 Kernel Development Statistics

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Post by hawski » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 10:07 AM UTC

I wonder how would active employers list look like sans drivers or rather sans vendor specific drivers.

Re: 5.16 Kernel Development Statistics

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Post by dx034 » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 12:52 PM UTC

Jyaif wrote: post #5

Notably missing from the "Most active employer" list is the company that has the most Linux-based computers in the world.

It's definitely weird not to see Amazon there. Facebook is much higher than I would've expected though. But it's also just a snapshot, maybe the longer-term average is very different from that.