Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel
One thing I hadn't seen said here yet:Do we really need that many kernel developers? I'm getting the impression that a lot of dev power is wasted just to maintain drivers that should be produced by hardware vendors. The vendors won't do that because there's no stable ABI, which means that people need to reinvent the wheel.One could argue that it adds better quality control and all in all, we get open source implementations of what would instead be proprietary drivers, but in the end, complex drivers aren't good enough anyway (see Nouveau). As for quality control... many say that Linus's view on security is questionable. For one, I don't like the concept of pluggable /stackable security mechanisms (selinux, apparmor, etc) where one consistent system would do. It just feels cluttered.