Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

[Ashwin Jha]

Hi All,

I am a first year graduate student at Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata, India. I have to do a small OS assignment. As I always wanted to
contribute to Linux, I am thinking of working on a Linux kernel bug or a
new feature as part of my assignment.

I have never worked on Linux kernel before. So, I need some help for
selecting a bug or a feature that can be resolved in a month's time. The
time period is not strict but desired. What I really want is a problem that
will help me in building a good understanding of Linux kernel.



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Regards,

Ashwin Jha
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Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:48:13PM +0530, Ashwin Jha wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am a first year graduate student at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata,
> India. I have to do a small OS assignment. As I always wanted to contribute to
> Linux, I am thinking of working on a Linux kernel bug or a new feature as part
> of my assignment.
> 
> I have never worked on Linux kernel before. So, I need some help for selecting
> a bug or a feature that can be resolved in a month's time. The time period is
> not strict but desired. What I really want is a problem that will help me in
> building a good understanding of Linux kernel.

How about looking at drivers/staging/*/TODO ?  There's lots of things
there that need cleanups and help.

Good luck,

greg k-h

Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

[sanjeev sharma]

Hi Greg

Where Kernel Bugs are getting tracked  ? so that open Bugs in Kernel can be
looked.

Regards
Sanjeev Sharma



On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:48:13PM +0530, Ashwin Jha wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am a first year graduate student at Indian Statistical Institute,
> Kolkata,
> > India. I have to do a small OS assignment. As I always wanted to
> contribute to
> > Linux, I am thinking of working on a Linux kernel bug or a new feature
> as part
> > of my assignment.
> >
> > I have never worked on Linux kernel before. So, I need some help for
> selecting
> > a bug or a feature that can be resolved in a month's time. The time
> period is
> > not strict but desired. What I really want is a problem that will help
> me in
> > building a good understanding of Linux kernel.
>
> How about looking at drivers/staging/*/TODO ?  There's lots of things
> there that need cleanups and help.
>
> Good luck,
>
> greg k-h
>
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Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

[Madper Xie]

sanjeev sharma <sanjeevsharmaengg@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Greg
>
> Where Kernel Bugs are getting tracked? ? so that open Bugs in Kernel can be
> looked.
>
Not very sure. maybe:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/describecomponents.cgi

I always report bugs to LKML or related mail-list. (E.g. Linux-efi)
So you'd better subscribe them.
> Regards
> Sanjeev Sharma
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:48:13PM +0530, Ashwin Jha wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > I am a first year graduate student at Indian Statistical Institute,
>     Kolkata,
>     > India. I have to do a small OS assignment. As I always wanted to
>     contribute to
>     > Linux, I am thinking of working on a Linux kernel bug or a new feature as
>     part
>     > of my assignment.
>     >
>     > I have never worked on Linux kernel before. So, I need some help for
>     selecting
>     > a bug or a feature that can be resolved in a month's time. The time
>     period is
>     > not strict but desired. What I really want is a problem that will help me
>     in
>     > building a good understanding of Linux kernel.
>
>     How about looking at drivers/staging/*/TODO ? ?There's lots of things
>     there that need cleanups and help.
>
>     Good luck,
>
>     greg k-h
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Kernelnewbies mailing list
>     Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
>     http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

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Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

[sanjeev sharma]

Thanks and Let me subscribe so that I can start working on Bugs.

Regards
Sanjeev Sharma .


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Madper Xie <cxie@redhat.com> wrote:

>
> sanjeev sharma <sanjeevsharmaengg@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Greg
> >
> > Where Kernel Bugs are getting tracked  ? so that open Bugs in Kernel can
> be
> > looked.
> >
> Not very sure. maybe:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/describecomponents.cgi
>
> I always report bugs to LKML or related mail-list. (E.g. Linux-efi)
> So you'd better subscribe them.
> > Regards
> > Sanjeev Sharma
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> >     On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:48:13PM +0530, Ashwin Jha wrote:
> >     >
> >     > Hi All,
> >     >
> >     > I am a first year graduate student at Indian Statistical Institute,
> >     Kolkata,
> >     > India. I have to do a small OS assignment. As I always wanted to
> >     contribute to
> >     > Linux, I am thinking of working on a Linux kernel bug or a new
> feature as
> >     part
> >     > of my assignment.
> >     >
> >     > I have never worked on Linux kernel before. So, I need some help
> for
> >     selecting
> >     > a bug or a feature that can be resolved in a month's time. The time
> >     period is
> >     > not strict but desired. What I really want is a problem that will
> help me
> >     in
> >     > building a good understanding of Linux kernel.
> >
> >     How about looking at drivers/staging/*/TODO ?  There's lots of things
> >     there that need cleanups and help.
> >
> >     Good luck,
> >
> >     greg k-h
> >
> >     _______________________________________________
> >     Kernelnewbies mailing list
> >     Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> >     http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>
> --
> Sent with my mu4e
>
>
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Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:22:58 +0530, sanjeev sharma said:

> Thanks and Let me subscribe so that I can start working on Bugs.

Subscribing to lkml almost guarantees you won't have enough time to
actually work on bugs.

"Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects
to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half.
Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes
working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read
all the postings either, they just work together really well." -- Linus Torvalds

The linux-kernel list has about 4 times the traffic now as when Linus said that.
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[Greg Freemyer]

On March 24, 2014 9:23:01 AM EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:22:58 +0530, sanjeev sharma said:
>
>> Thanks and Let me subscribe so that I can start working on Bugs.
>
>Subscribing to lkml almost guarantees you won't have enough time to
>actually work on bugs.
>
>"Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who
>expects
>to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read
>even half.
>Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand
>gnomes
>working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes
>read
>all the postings either, they just work together really well." -- Linus
>Torvalds
>
>The linux-kernel list has about 4 times the traffic now as when Linus
>said that.

I subscribe to a few subsystem lists, that is more than I can keep up with.  I've never had the urge to even try lkml.  For me it's ide/libata, ext4, xfs.  I should drop ext4 as I rarely read it these days.

Greg
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