2001-02-15 17:13:03

by Yuri Niyazov

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Subject: What does the linux kernel need?

Hello, respected Linux kernel developers,
I am currently a university student taking a "Advanced design of
Operating Systems" class at
New York University. We are reviewing some basic and studying a few
advanced issues with regards
to kernel design, mostly multithreading, scalability, performance
improvement - its webpage is http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/G22.3033-010/
take a look if you please. The requirement of the class is a final
project proposal and
implementation of a student's own choosing - I would really like to do
something useful for the
linux kernel, but I do not know what kinds of issues are most imminent
at the linux kernel and
have to be worked on. I would greatly appreciate it if people would
send me ideas of what is
needed and what I can work on - it can be pretty much anything, any
topic or project, but it must
relate to kernel development, thus I am asking it here.
I am not subscribed to the list yet, please CC to me your reply.
Thank you very much,
Yuri Niyazov

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2001-02-15 19:43:49

by Gabi Davar

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Subject: RE: What does the linux kernel need?

http://linux24.sourceforge.net/ is a good place to start.


> I am not subscribed to the list yet, please CC to me your reply.
> Thank you very much,

You should be.

Also I suggest you read the lkml FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ . It should
give quite a few starting points.

-gabi


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yuri Niyazov [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 7:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: What does the linux kernel need?
>
>
> Hello, respected Linux kernel developers,
> I am currently a university student taking a "Advanced design of
> Operating Systems" class at
> New York University. We are reviewing some basic and studying a few
> advanced issues with regards
> to kernel design, mostly multithreading, scalability, performance
> improvement - its webpage is http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/G22.3033-010/
> take a look if you please. The requirement of the class is a final
> project proposal and
> implementation of a student's own choosing - I would really
> like to do
> something useful for the
> linux kernel, but I do not know what kinds of issues are most
> imminent
> at the linux kernel and
> have to be worked on. I would greatly appreciate it if people would
> send me ideas of what is
> needed and what I can work on - it can be pretty much anything, any
> topic or project, but it must
> relate to kernel development, thus I am asking it here.
> I am not subscribed to the list yet, please CC to me your reply.
> Thank you very much,
> Yuri Niyazov
>
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2001-02-16 12:40:08

by Rik van Riel

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Subject: Re: What does the linux kernel need?

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Yuri Niyazov wrote:

> I am currently a university student taking a "Advanced
> design of Operating Systems" class at New York University. We

> please. The requirement of the class is a final project proposal
> and implementation of a student's own choosing - I would really
> like to do something useful for the linux kernel,

Cool ... I've been meaning to put together a "student's projects"
page for http://kernelnewbies.org/ for a while now, but haven't
gotten around to it. ;(

But feel free to drop by on #kernelnewbies any time you want, I'm
sure we'll be able to find a few projects to work on.

Btw ... any volunteers to help document a number of student projects
for the Linux kernel so we can put a page up with a bunch of
possible kernel projects ?

regards,

Rik
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2001-02-23 08:57:17

by Pavel Machek

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Subject: Re: What does the linux kernel need?

Hi!


> Hello, respected Linux kernel developers,
> I am currently a university student taking a "Advanced design of
> Operating Systems" class at
> New York University. We are reviewing some basic and studying a few
> advanced issues with regards
> to kernel design, mostly multithreading, scalability, performance
> improvement - its webpage is http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/G22.3033-010/
> take a look if you please. The requirement of the class is a final
> project proposal and
> implementation of a student's own choosing - I would really like to do
> something useful for the
> linux kernel, but I do not know what kinds of issues are most imminent
> at the linux kernel and
> have to be worked on. I would greatly appreciate it if people would
> send me ideas of what is

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2001-02-23 19:14:45

by Tim Tim

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Subject: problem with mount -o loop

I made iso-image from cd with
dd if=/dev/hdd of=/image.iso
and mount it with
mount -o loop /image.iso /mnt/cdrom
under Linux-2.4.2-pre1 it is working
but under Linux-2.4.2 do not
Please help me to understand why



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2001-02-23 19:22:37

by J Sloan

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Subject: Re: problem with mount -o loop

Tim Tim wrote:

> I made iso-image from cd with
> dd if=/dev/hdd of=/image.iso
> and mount it with
> mount -o loop /image.iso /mnt/cdrom
> under Linux-2.4.2-pre1 it is working
> but under Linux-2.4.2 do not
> Please help me to understand why

If it was working it was by sheer luck -

You need the loop patches available at

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches

jjs