1 line of code?
Amateur, I changed 1 byte of code in the Linux kernel!
It was random driver with something along the lines of “if (hardware_version > 3) fail()”.
One day we got a new shipment of hardware that wasn’t working for some reason until I upped that 3 to a 4.
Someone needs to hit us with “I convinced someone to not contribute to the kernel”
Still asking myself what that four year old girl who contributed to the kernel is doing today. Hopefully she goes into IT somewhere, she’d have a killer résumé.
Actual code!? Most of us have to settle for fixing a grammatical error in the documentation
🥳I am mentioned in the kernel git (even if it is only for a found bug in driver about a specific wifi dongle that had wrong MAC address)
It really feels like that ☺️💕
I was thinking about trying to contribute, but the code I was fixing is filled with so many workarounds that I’m terrified of breaking one.
“What if I just change this a bit…”
segmentation fault
“Nope, nope, let’s put that mystery code back…”
