My first contribution to Linux

#1

Post by vkoskiv » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 12:31 PM UTC

My first contribution to Linux
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Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by schnitzelstoat » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

This was really interesting! I've often wondered how one would do such a thing.

Seeing your name in the Linux changelog must be awesome!

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by vkoskiv » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

schnitzelstoat wrote: post #2

This was really interesting! I've often wondered how one would do such a thing. Seeing your name in the Linux changelog must be awesome!

Thank you! It is indeed!

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by sxzygz » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 10:46 PM UTC

vkoskiv wrote: post #3

schnitzelstoat wrote: post #2

This was really interesting! I've often wondered how one would do such a thing. Seeing your name in the Linux changelog must be awesome!

Thank you! It is indeed!

Bravo. Awesome work.

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by jw_cook » Tue, Oct 07, 2025, 4:24 AM UTC

This was a fun read, and well written. Thanks for sharing! Adding/improving support for some niche piece of hardware sounds like an ideal way to get started with kernel development, and something I'd like to try myself sometime.

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by Havoc » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

It’s definitely something on my bucket list too. Delighted at recent rust developments as a result cause I know zero c

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by raybb » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

Kernel development has always been a bit of a mystery to me so I really appreciate this post walking through the process.

Did you try to use any AI tools during their process?

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by petetnt » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

Thanks for the great write-up!

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by caminanteblanco » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 5:13 PM UTC

This was an absolutely awesome post, and it makes me want to do the work to fix the functionality on my Lenovo laptop. Though I'm sure the Lenovo drivers are a little more closely watched, so I'll make sure to do my due diligence first. Thank you for the write up!

Re: My first contribution to Linux

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Post by rvz » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 5:30 PM UTC

This is the easiest way to hire engineers with high quality open source contributions with a public track record.

All it takes is just to check that the commit shows up in upstream projects such as Linux and anyone can see the code, the reviews and the authors email in the AUTHORS file which verify that this contribution / patch is indeed from the author who committed that change.

This is a very old form of social proof which saves lots time and makes Leetcode redundant. (Which can now be completely cheated with LLMs.)