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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:21:28 +0530 From: Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena419@...il.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Fwd: Six month major project on kernel Hello Jonathan, Thank you very much for your reply. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:13:51 +0530 > Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena419@...il.com> wrote: > > > I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on > > linux kernel . I would be having a duration of six months to work on > > the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that > > would be helpful to me as well as linux. I am interested in parallel > > computing, data structures , operating system. I am well versed in > > C/C++. I think there might be projects which need to be done, I would > > like to work on them. > > Your interest in working on the kernel is welcome, but, sadly, you are > unlikely to get much help with this particular approach. Kernel > developers tend to be busy, they have little time to spend hand-holding > well-meaning students with vague ideas of doing a kernel project. > Experience shows that much better results happen when developers join our > community with a specific project that they are interested in working on. > > My advice to you would be to spend some time studying the working of the > kernel, perhaps fixing a few bugs while you are at it. Eventually you > will come across something that does not work as well as you think it > should; at that point, perhaps, you will be able to conceive of a specific > project to make things better. Come back with specific ideas - and, > preferably, some code - and you will have a much better chance of getting > some attention from the development community. Oh I see, yeah I understand, Thanks a lot again for guiding me, I will see for bugs this would really help me in increasing my understanding of kernel, and of course try to come up with a good idea myself. > > > Thanks, > > jon > -- Thanks and Regards , Gaurav -- Thanks and Regards , Gaurav -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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