Kernel official involvement

From: Chris Jones
Date: Wed Jul 04 2012 - 08:50:03 EST


I am just wondering how does anyone get further involved with Linux kernel development? How do you get selected to be able to push through patches etc. to the official kernel? Who authorizes who to be able to do so?


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