compiling modules

[Jason Brown]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:56:40PM -0500, kevin wrote:
> "Joerg Sonnenberger" <joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:20050420174304.GC1477 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:26:30AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >>     It should be easy to convert said drivers into modules, in which case
> >>     you would have to look at a modularized driver like nv verses de to
> >>     figure out how to do it.   I would not expect it would require much
> >>     coding... mainly just hooking the driver up to the module interfacing
> >>     declarations and writing a Makefile.
> >
> > It's not that easy, because the detach part is completely missing.
> > Actually this driver needs a lot of work to get even near the state
> > of being maintainable. It's one of the two drivers not supporting
> > ALTQ, because I didn't want to spend too much time following 20 different
> > similiar code pathes. It also does some _very_ nasty stuff with
> > preallocating interfaces to support the multiple chip versions, but
> > that can and should be improved. Anyone having such a card?
> >
> > Joerg
> 
> I would like to contribute in this manner, but have never done so.
> I have looked at the code for if_nv.c and if_de.c, but am not really
> sure what I'm looking for. I wish I could be of more help, but I don't
> have the experience (not to mention probably being a little rusty in
> programming). If you guys know of an example (or something) that
> I could try to get my feet wet with, then I may be able to go from there.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin 
> 
> 

I am in the same situation as Kevin.  I would like to contribute, but
my skills are not sharp right now.  I am reading the developers docs, 
etc, but was wondering if there could be a list on the projects page
(maybe a subcategory to the "mini projects") for people to start on
as an introduction to dfbsd ?

My current skills would probably be more of a benefit to the ports
effort, but I have been wanting to break that mold a bit a learn
more coding.

Jason