22 Aug 2013 Pizza   » (Master)

I made it onto LWN.net's top kernel contributor page!

This week's (Linux Weekly News)[lwn.net) (kernel)[http://lwn.net/Articles/563977] page has information on the upcoming Linux 3.11 release. (Note that this page will be opened up for non-subscribers next week. Subscribe to LWN. They are awesome. Just do it. I'll wait)

I came in at #7 on the top contributor list, with 15,510 lines of code added/changed thanks to the ST-E CW1200 driver getting mainlined. This represents a whopping 1.6% of the overall churn for this kernel release.

While I wasn't the original author of the cw1200 driver (credit for that goes to Dmitry Tarnyagin), over the past couple of years I've rewritten large chunks of its core and substantially tweaked the majority of what's left -- and this mainling effort has taken the better part of a year to accomplish.

But I digress. Getting onto that "top contributors" list was one of those personal/professional milestones that I never expected to attain, especially now that $dayjob has taken me out of the WiFi/802.11 and Linux kernel hacking realms in favor of WPAN ICs with a healthy dose of microcontrollers on the side.

Syndicated 2013-08-22 14:20:42 from Solomon Peachy

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