Re: Six month major project on kernel

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:13:51 +0530
Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena419@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on
> linux kernel . I would be having a duration of six months to work on
> the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that
> would be helpful to me as well as linux. I am interested in parallel
> computing, data structures , operating system. I am well versed in
> C/C++. I think there might be projects which need to be done, I would
> like to work on them.

Your interest in working on the kernel is welcome, but, sadly, you are
unlikely to get much help with this particular approach.  Kernel
developers tend to be busy, they have little time to spend hand-holding
well-meaning students with vague ideas of doing a kernel project.
Experience shows that much better results happen when developers join our
community with a specific project that they are interested in working on.

My advice to you would be to spend some time studying the working of the
kernel, perhaps fixing a few bugs while you are at it.  Eventually you
will come across something that does not work as well as you think it
should; at that point, perhaps, you will be able to conceive of a specific
project to make things better.  Come back with specific ideas - and,
preferably, some code - and you will have a much better chance of getting
some attention from the development community.

Thanks,

jon