Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:45:09 -0700 | From | Mark Gross <> | Subject | Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students |
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:30:17PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Mark Gross wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:01:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > The kernel newbies community often gets inquiries from CS students who > > > need a project for their studies and would like to do something with > > > the Linux kernel, but would also like their code to be useful to the > > > community afterwards. > > > > > > In order to make it easier for them, I am trying to put together a > > > page with projects that: > > > - Are self contained enough that the students can implement the > > > project by themselves, since that is often a university requirement. > > > - Are self contained enough that Linux could merge the code (maybe > > > with additional changes) after the student has been working on it > > > for a few months. > > > - Are large enough to qualify as a student project, luckily there is > > > flexibility here since we get inquiries for anything from 6 week > > > projects to 6 month projects. > > > > > > If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them > > > to this page (or email me): > > > > > > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects > > > > Is there already a make config option that will do a good job at setting > > a default .config file based on what is already running on a system? > I have discussed this briefly with Kay Sievers. > What udev can provide is the list of modules needed, so what the kernel > need to provide is a simple module to CONFIG option(s) converter + a base > config to start out with. > Nothing particular difficult but needs a few days work to do. >
that would be cool.
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