From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754560AbZH0BJt (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:09:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754493AbZH0BJs (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:09:48 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:58506 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754489AbZH0BJs (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:09:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:09:48 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Satyam Shekhar cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Student Project Idea In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Satyam Shekhar wrote: > Hi, > > I am a final year undergrad student at the Indian Institute of > Technology, Guwahati, India. I have my B.Tech project starting this > semester. I have a keen interest in kernel development and am looking > for topics for the project. > > I would be highly grateful if you could give me some suggestions or > ideas to work on in this regard. Get involved in the Kernel Newbies project: http://kernelnewbies.org/ There's more than enough information and support there to help you get started and find something interesting to work on. Kernel hacking is where it's at, don't listen to naysayers :-) Here's some slides from a talk I gave on this topic at foss.in a couple of years back: http://namei.org/presentations/fossin2007-kernel-hacking.pdf - James -- James Morris