On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 09:54:42PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > 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. > > could you explain better what you need? I think I've already such > tools ;-) >
base function: Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config with all the drivers needed for the platform I'm building on. expert configs for different applications: laptop battery, vitalization, HPC, tiny, multi-media, testing --mgross - 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/