On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 7:19 PM Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 04:09:36PM +0530, Karuna Grewal wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm interested in working on the AD7292 driver for Linux kernel as a > > part of the GSoC project. I've previous experience working with device > > drivers and am also familiar with couple of Linux kernel's subsystems. > > For a starting point I wonder if someone can point out some tasks > > which I could work upon as the project page doesn't elaborate much > > about it. > Curios. Is this project listed anywhere ? If so, can we get a link ? Thanks Alex > Agreed! > > You may try the following: > https://kernelnewbies.org/IIO_tasks > > Please don't send these Tasks on iio list. > > > In case the idea is to start working on the driver itself I'd like to > > discuss about the same. > > My personal opinion: Try to get atleast a small patchset accepted in > the kernel. It helps you get familiar with all the tools and how kernel > cycle moves. I strongly agree with Jonathan on 'setup', whatever > hardware you plan to use in the project say., how would you build/test > kernel on Rpi or beagle or QEMU or diolan ? dt-overlay, acpi > enumeration ? > > Pray that AD7292 doesn't have an unusual SPI interface. > Otherwise you end up like me ;) > > If you really want to try some sensor, I would recommend https://www.tanotis.com/ > to buy them as they have cheap and low duty-taxes+GST+ ... > > In my case I ordered from mouser IIRC: > ₹ 1,459.58(sensor) + ₹ 1,750.58(duty taxes + other taxes from Indian > Gov.) > > Yeah, taxes are more than the actual sensor! Surreal :/ > > Feel free to query mentors and community with questions -- I would > join you too. > > > Goodluck! > -- > Himanshu Jha > Undergraduate Student > Department of Electronics & Communication > Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology
