On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 07:26:08PM -0300, Geraldo Nascimento wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:28:01PM +0530, Muni Sekhar wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:02 PM Valdis Klētnieks > > <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:34:59 +0530, Muni Sekhar said: > > > > What small projects would you suggest to a novice with the ALSA > > > > kernel. The aim is to develop a familiarity with the ALSA kernel > > > > source code, and also to submit it for academic purposes. > > I'm not an academicist by far but if you want your patches to be academic, > I think it's more of a question of scientific rigour and scientific > method, No - it is an issue of education. They are trying to learn something that they don't already know. The contribution is they become educated. > such that when the patch(set) is finally accepted by the Linux > community and Linus Torvalds ultimately, you can write a paper about > it. > They are not writing a paper for Linus. They are writing it for their dean or mentor. > Obviously there are a lot of things an academicist could bring from his > background to improve the Linux kernel, Yeah - but that is not what they are trying to do. And if that was the case, this would likely not be the list for it, since this is a newbies list. > My suggestion is to ask Takashi Iwai if he has in mind BOINK - the doesn't need a new student dragging on his tail and if he did then he would chose an intern to help with his code. You are failing to understand how higher education works. > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
