linux-kernel - Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

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Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:07:07 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

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:

* 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 GPLed.

* compression for ext4. Its about time someone did it right. Special
  bonus if you can do it in a way that it does not slow down. If cpu
  is free, compress, if it is busy, just write it straight to disk.
							Pavel
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