From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030691AbXC2UpG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:45:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030693AbXC2UpF (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:45:05 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:60250 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030691AbXC2UpD (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:45:03 -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=itG9PJdXMiYEyWpvQs4rEGuqBFKW6g98+kWqaU/useANxmzAeOoy3OxzYrH2vf22n11/iaQbTIM6CajXHhrlClLizQQH/E00KaLJ+CsRkkkLfAlb1moLrbO70mfs43nK4BsO0PKVcsPD0grZKXyZN2t4lj5B3HubvZ6tYlPtO7M= Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:44:51 +0200 To: Russ Meyerriecks Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Student Project Ideas Message-ID: <20070329204450.GA13541@Ahmed> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 05:04:08AM -0500, Russ Meyerriecks wrote: > 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. > I'm a college student too and I wished a wish like that in the past. After watching the development process for a while, I realized that somehow a college final project won't fit with the linux kernel project. Everything here is done by _evolution_ not a revolution, you'll even see the highest matured programmers in this project send little patches day by day. And the problem that you can't meet your PH.D and tell him/her: hey, I have a patch or two, they simply don't understand that ;). Second, I think it's very hard to make a considerable project in the kernel without doing some little patches here and there at first. Google for kernel newbies and kernel janitors. Regards, -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish.07.googlepages.com