Re: Newbie Kernel Programmer looking for first project.

["Michael Litchard" <michael%schmong.org@localhost>]

Thanks for the help so far. Here is where I'm at.

When I see a pattern like this:

#idef DEBUG
   printf("foo"...);
#endif

I replace those three line with
   aprint_debug("foo...");

the reasoning being that aprint_debug uses AB_DEBUG to govern behavior,
and a new convention is replacing the old.

But I'm starting to question this. I see more complex preprocessor commands,
and now I wonder if I should just leave them alone. Could you give me some
feedback?
                          Michael Litchard




On 7/1/08, Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
> Michael Litchard wrote:
>
> > I'm new to cvs, I  know I should be using cvs to modify
> > the kernel source but I've never used it before.
> > Could someone point me to a tutorial
> > for cvs for the way the netbsd project uses it?
> > I know I need to do the following
> > download the source (done, using anoncvs)
> > start modifying the source (cvs is used here somehow?)
> >
>
>  Just modify the file, no cvs commands necessary.
>
>
> > make a diff
> >
>
>  cvs diff -u filename
>
>
> > open a pr with the diff.
> >
>
>  send-pr, use your favourite $EDITOR to import the diff into the problem
> report template.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Jared
>