Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755090AbYCEN52 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:57:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751355AbYCEN5R (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:57:17 -0500 Received: from orion2.pixelized.ch ([195.190.190.13]:57363 "EHLO mail.pixelized.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040AbYCEN5Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:57:16 -0500 Message-ID: <47CEA6B1.3080803@cateee.net> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:57:05 +0100 From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Alexey Zaytsev , Pekka Enberg , Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Vegard Nossum Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code? References: <84144f020803041045i70bbb05l6983bd14c5bcc91a@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020803041155k222c13ecu13c8c9534ced87e5@mail.gmail.com> <20080304152303.2a041814@cuia.boston.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20080304152303.2a041814@cuia.boston.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1899 Lines: 44 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:05:34 +0300 > "Alexey Zaytsev" wrote: >> Maybe the Kernelnewbies should stand up as the mentoring organisation? > > Kernelnewbies is just a community of people, without much organization. > > However, I would be happy to coordinate a group of mentors for Linux > kernel Summer of Code as well as be a mentor for the kernel subsystems > that I know something about. > > If we can find mentors to cover most of the kernel (volunteers? anyone?), > we can do a good enough job of mentoring the students that we could sign > up for Summer of Code. > > Summer of Code could also be a good way to get some kernel related work > done, for example LTP tests for kernel subsystems that do not have a > test suite yet. Maybe not the most interesting work, but it can be very > educational as well as useful - that and $5000 may be enough to motivate > students to get some of this "boring work" done :) I propose and I could mentor two projects about automagical kernel configuration: - add support to menuconfig, to show what you should enable (not really an automagical configuration, but more an helper which know better(?) your hardware). - new ideas about hardware/protocol detection and detection heuristics. I've already done some parts: generating an hardware->kernel driver database ( http://cateee.net/lkddb/ ), and a working prototype of autoconfiguration ( http://testing.cateee.net/autokernconf/ ). I really want to have new ideas and other developers. I think the idea are appealing to students, and it doesn't requires a lot of knowledge of kernel internal. ciao cate -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/