I do known what they mean. It's good work for a long time that isn't getting worked on therefore it seems good for me to work on. Cheers Nick
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Paul Bolle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 13:35 -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> On the other hand there seems to be too many FIXMEs in the main >> kernel for one person to fix. > > A quick grep for FIXMEs (also including the "XXX" pattern, which > basically means the same thing) triggers over 7000 hits. Even with a > (rather optimistic) one hour per FIXME that's over three years of work > (assuming a sane working hours/year metric). > > Moreover, you appear to misunderstand the meaning of these FIXMEs. It's > not a marker for something trivial that somehow never got done. It might > actually mean all kind of things. In many cases it points at a hard, or > time consuming, etc., problem that no one has yet found a way, or the > time, to fix properly. > > I would not advise someone new to the kernel to grep for FIXMEs to see > if they could contribute something. There are many things those people > could do, but those FIXMEs seem an awkward place to start. > > > Paul Bolle > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
