> 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.
>
