Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-03 Thread david
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by converting the /usr filesystem to compressed - because even a

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-03 Thread Wander Winkelhorst
On 11/3/07, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem > > years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by > > converting the /usr filesystem to

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-03 Thread Wander Winkelhorst
On 11/3/07, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by converting the /usr filesystem to compressed -

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-03 Thread david
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by converting the /usr filesystem to compressed - because even a

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem > years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by > converting the /usr filesystem to compressed - because even a 33mhz > Power chipset could read in 5

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:44:52 EDT, Lennart Sorensen said: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Sorry for the late reply, it's been a zoo of a week here... ;) > If it doesn't it seems the compression feature is going to be rather > unpredictable and my optimization would

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) > Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: >>> base function: >>> Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a >>> kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Rik van Riel wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:44:52 EDT, Lennart Sorensen said: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Sorry for the late reply, it's been a zoo of a week here... ;) If it doesn't it seems the compression feature is going to be rather unpredictable and my optimization would be

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by converting the /usr filesystem to compressed - because even a 33mhz Power chipset could read in 5

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Tell it to your profesor ;-). I don't have one. I graduated 7 years ago. I was just pointing holes in the spec. :) > Not neccessarily but yes, that would be nice, too. If it doesn't it seems the compression feature is going to be

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-29 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2007-10-29 15:48:20, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:07:07PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hard stuff: > > > > * network character device -- similar to nbd, but for char devices. > > either figure out how to forward ioctls(), or implement > > usb-over-network,

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:07:07PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hard stuff: > > * network character device -- similar to nbd, but for char devices. > either figure out how to forward ioctls(), or implement > usb-over-network, or... > > * openMosix -- they seem to have userspace solution, but

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-29 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2007-10-29 15:48:20, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:07:07PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: Hard stuff: * network character device -- similar to nbd, but for char devices. either figure out how to forward ioctls(), or implement usb-over-network, or... *

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Tell it to your profesor ;-). I don't have one. I graduated 7 years ago. I was just pointing holes in the spec. :) Not neccessarily but yes, that would be nice, too. If it doesn't it seems the compression feature is going to be

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:07:07PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: Hard stuff: * network character device -- similar to nbd, but for char devices. either figure out how to forward ioctls(), or implement usb-over-network, or... * openMosix -- they seem to have userspace solution, but not

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:07, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > - 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > - 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): Hard stuff: *

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! - 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): Hard stuff: *

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:07, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! - 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-18 Thread Toshiharu Harada
On 10/15/2007 8:01 AM, 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-18 Thread Toshiharu Harada
On 10/15/2007 8:01 AM, 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-17 Thread Mark Gross
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-17 Thread Mark Gross
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.

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread david
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: base function: Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a kernel.org tree and automatically create a

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread david
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 16 2007 16:23, Rik van Riel wrote: 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. Too

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 16:23, Rik van Riel wrote: >> >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. >> >> Too easy. Since opensuse's udev

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: > > > >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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Gross
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:17:32PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan 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: > > > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects > > > > Is there already a make config option that will do

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Gross
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 >

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: > >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. Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Gross
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: 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. Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the modules

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Gross
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:17:32PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan 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: http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects Is there already a make config option that will do a good

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 16:23, Rik van Riel wrote: 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. Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread david
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 16 2007 16:23, Rik van Riel wrote: 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. Too

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread david
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: base function: Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a kernel.org tree and automatically create a

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread david
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Zan Lynx wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:01 -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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread david
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > > 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 get tiered of trimming down my .config for my laptop build so it takes > > less than

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
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 >>>

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
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: > > 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Gross
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:10:40AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:23:52 +0200 > Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them > > > to this page (or email me): > > > > > >

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:31:54PM +0200, Philippe Elie wrote: > > Increase speed for a build with no updates > > == > > On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes > > roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated. > > Generating

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:30:41PM -0200, Guilherme Amadio wrote: > I read the messages about the company list and now this CS projects list and > I was wondering if is there any similar list of labs/universities that host > PhD projects related to the Linux kernel. I am thinking about

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Guilherme Amadio
Hello, I read the messages about the company list and now this CS projects list and I was wondering if is there any similar list of labs/universities that host PhD projects related to the Linux kernel. I am thinking about switching from physics to CS and it would be really cool to work with

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:10:32 -0600 Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects > > How about this in the Device Mapper raid-1/mirror code? > /* FIXME: add read balancing */ > > That comment has been in there for many releases. I've wanted read >

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:40:34 +0800 WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects > > Thanks very much, Rik. I need this eagerly. > > I want to find a kernel project that can both be my graduation thesis > and contribute to the Linux kernel community. I read

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Gross
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Zan Lynx
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:01 -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. > >

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Whitesell (LKML)
On Oct 14, 2007, at 4:01 PM, 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:36 +0200, Philippe Elie wrote: > > > Increase speed for a build with no updates > > > == > > > On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes > > > roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated. > > > Generating

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 15 2007 18:36, Philippe Elie wrote: >> >> Isn't make -j 2 or more implemented by running multiple make in sub-dirs ? >> Parallel make is more and more used even on cheap hardware. > >Errm, I misread what you said, it can be a single Makefile in each sub-dirs Even now, make -j8 really

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Philippe Elie
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 18:31 +, Philippe Elie wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 16:23 +, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > Hi Rik. > > > > 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Philippe Elie
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 16:23 +, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Hi Rik. > > 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sun, 14 October 2007 19:01:28 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them > to this page (or email me): Maybe this: Allow removal of select from Kconfig files Difficulty: 4 Many config options depend on other options is unrelated

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:23:52 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them > > to this page (or email me): > > > > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects > > In the kernel build area a few possible projects exists. Thank

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Rik. 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread WANG Cong
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. >

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread WANG Cong
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Rik. 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:23:52 +0200 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them to this page (or email me): http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects In the kernel build area a few possible projects exists. Thank you Sam, I

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sun, 14 October 2007 19:01:28 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them to this page (or email me): Maybe this: Allow removal of select from Kconfig files Difficulty: 4 Many config options depend on other options is unrelated

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Philippe Elie
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 16:23 +, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Rik. 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Philippe Elie
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 18:31 +, Philippe Elie wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 16:23 +, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Rik. 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 15 2007 18:36, Philippe Elie wrote: Isn't make -j 2 or more implemented by running multiple make in sub-dirs ? Parallel make is more and more used even on cheap hardware. Errm, I misread what you said, it can be a single Makefile in each sub-dirs Even now, make -j8 really pays off on

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:36 +0200, Philippe Elie wrote: Increase speed for a build with no updates == On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated. Generating one single

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Whitesell (LKML)
On Oct 14, 2007, at 4:01 PM, 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Zan Lynx
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:01 -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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Gross
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.

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:40:34 +0800 WANG Cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects Thanks very much, Rik. I need this eagerly. I want to find a kernel project that can both be my graduation thesis and contribute to the Linux kernel community. I read that page

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:10:32 -0600 Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects How about this in the Device Mapper raid-1/mirror code? /* FIXME: add read balancing */ That comment has been in there for many releases. I've wanted read balancing for

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Guilherme Amadio
Hello, I read the messages about the company list and now this CS projects list and I was wondering if is there any similar list of labs/universities that host PhD projects related to the Linux kernel. I am thinking about switching from physics to CS and it would be really cool to work with

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:30:41PM -0200, Guilherme Amadio wrote: I read the messages about the company list and now this CS projects list and I was wondering if is there any similar list of labs/universities that host PhD projects related to the Linux kernel. I am thinking about switching

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:31:54PM +0200, Philippe Elie wrote: Increase speed for a build with no updates == On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated. Generating one single

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:10:40AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:23:52 +0200 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them to this page (or email me): http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects In

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Gross
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
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: 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
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 get tiered of trimming down my .config for my laptop build so it takes less than 30min to build

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread david
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, 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

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread david
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Zan Lynx wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:01 -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

WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-14 Thread Rik van Riel
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

WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-14 Thread Rik van Riel
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