From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030725AbXC2U7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:59:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030732AbXC2U7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:59:50 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.189]:16406 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030725AbXC2U7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:59:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:from; b=kxBZN6tV/z8ZBb1RZ7JhW01NyjMpPHq/6wq18P6LUKalJjlgb+IXGOfT3N9QDkI3I2fTLeGB45U4vzezsYGRfl5ED2UimH3fwtPE5gMNDnH+/1PwkWQ6Smw96OpmXuWiI1hZkwu+WMDXKq4Ykfp74okRao98u2pFOlhEty6cHFY= Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:59:36 +0200 To: Cong WANG Cc: Russ Meyerriecks , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Student Project Ideas Message-ID: <20070329205935.GB13541@Ahmed> References: <2375c9f90703290332w3f232b1cjf044f554fba04879@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2375c9f90703290332w3f232b1cjf044f554fba04879@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:32:21PM +0800, Cong WANG wrote: > 2007/3/29, Russ Meyerriecks : > >Hi all, > > I've been hacking on the Linux kernel all semester for my OS: > >Internals class. We are given full autonomy in picking our final > >programming project and I would love for mine to be /useful/ for the > >Linux kernel and not just a theoretical exorcise. If anybody has any > >bug fixes or features maybe they never got around to, and would be > >suitable for this situation, I would love to hear about them. > > > > First, I think you can read the book named "Kernel Projects for > Linux". It's a good book although it's outdated. > > Second, in fact, I am also a college student and also want to find a > suitable and real task in linux kernel for me to work on. KJ doesn't > help much. ;-p > No, it really helps alot, just be _patient_. For me, I sent a series of dumb patches at first to use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of manual computation. Though the patches were completely braindead, I learnt alot of stuff about how everything works here. Beside sending this KJ patches, I keep reading from Understanding Linux kernel v3 and reading lots of code everyday. Yesterday my first semi-real patch was accepted in -mm. I'm sure that day by day my patches will be more real and fix serious issues. All of that wouldn't have smoothly happened without the first step, the KJ step ;). It seems that being a developer in the kernel community is going exactly like how code goes, _evolution_ not a revolution. You can't be responsible for a good project directly, just take your way from a janitor to a subsystem maintaner :). Ofcourse, unless you have an old experience in other OSs (espcifically Unix ones). Regards, -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish.07.googlepages.com