My First Contribution to Linux
3 days ago
- #Hardware Support
- #Driver Development
- #Linux Kernel
- The author studies Linux source code to understand computer operations better.
- They own a Fujitsu Lifebook S2110 laptop from 2005, which still runs the latest Arch Linux.
- The laptop has hotkeys that work in 'Application' mode but not in 'Player' mode.
- Investigation reveals missing driver support for 'Player' mode hotkeys.
- The author modifies the 'fujitsu-laptop' driver to add support for the missing hotkeys.
- They test the changes successfully and submit a patch to the Linux kernel maintainers.
- The patch is accepted and included in the mainline Linux kernel.