What does the linux kernel need?

What does the linux kernel need?

[Yuri Niyazov]

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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Re: What does the linux kernel need?

[Pavel Machek]

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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problem with mount -o loop

[Tim Tim]

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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Re: problem with mount -o loop

[J Sloan]

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

Re: What does the linux kernel need?

[Rik van Riel]

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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