30 Sep
2021
30 Sep
'21
6:31 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:07:15 -0400, Ruben Safir said:
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.
On the flip side, it's the rare professor who knows enough about the Linux kernel to assign reasonable projects. If we had a dollar for every time that we saw a prof assign "hijack a system call" or "read/write a file from inside the kernel".....