On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:32:21PM +0800, Cong WANG wrote: > 2007/3/29, Russ Meyerriecks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >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 It's a good book although it's outdated.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
