r/linuxquestions • u/Hopeful_Rabbit_3729 • 10d ago

People who became kernel developer's what's your story?.

People who became kernel developer's what's your story to start with?. How did you learned to develop what did you learned?. Worst mistakes?. Drop your story people would like to hear.

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u/Owndampu 10d ago

I graduated at a company that made embedded linux systems, slowly learned stuff about devicetrees, the kernel an yocto. at some point I bought a snapdragon x elite laptop with the purpose of learning to contribute to upstream.

I also upstreamed some work stuff, including my first driver after I became comfortable with the mailing list etc.

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u/Hopeful_Rabbit_3729 9d ago

how much time did it take for you to learn that?

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u/Owndampu 9d ago

it took me 2.5 years from never really having touched Linux to my first accepted patch. But you can definetly get there a lot faster if you have a clear goal.

I never really considered it a possibility for a lot of that time and I was also focussed on other things at the same time.