Each project may have some small tasks you can complete as part of the application process. Do not start on these tasks until after you complete the first patch tutorial and Greg Kroah-Hartman has accepted at least ten of your cleanup patches and two of your patchsets.

Intro

This page is used to coordinate which OPW applicant is working on which small task for OPW mentors. Each project will list those tasks on the OPW intro page, or link to a list of tasks from that page. Please complete the following steps before starting on a small task:

Create a kernelnewbies account and make sure to remember your password. Password reset does not always work.
Get an OPW mentor or coordinator to give you edit privileges by sending an email to the opw-kernel mailing list with the subject "[KERNEL NEWBIES ACCESS] username", where username is your kernel newbies username.
If you do not get access within three business days (weekdays), start asking for access on IRC.
Claim a task by adding the information from this template:
Task name:
Date claimed:
Links to patch submissions:
Current status:

If you have claimed a task, but haven't completed it in a week, the task will be removed from this page, and any applicant can tackle that task. If you have submitted a solution to a task, please update this page with a link to your initial patchset, so that we know you're making progress. Please only claim one task at a time. Make sure to update this page once the task is done by moving your task template to the "Completed Tasks" section.

Claimed Tasks

Task name: Tiny kernel. Sort modules extable at build time
Claimed by: Sarah Khan sarahjmi07@gmail.com , nikky
Date claimed: 31st October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current Status: WIP
Task name: Tiny kernel. Remove runtime extable sorting logic if CONFIG_BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 7th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: Tiny kernel. Rip out the rest of kernel/smpboot.c if !CONFIG_SMP
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 7th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Tiny kernel. Make printing of x86 CPU info optional.
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 11th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: y2038. drivers/power/ab8500_fg.c (timespec)
Claimed by: Ebru Akagunduz ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com , ebru
Date claimed: 7th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5053891/
Current status: Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann < arnd@arndb.de >
Task name: kernel/cpuset.c (time_t)- y2038
Claimed by: Heena Sirwani heenasirwani@gmail.com , heena
Date claimed: 8th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5073611/
Current status: Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Task name: y2038. drivers/scsi/ips.c (time_t)
Claimed by: Ebru Akagunduz ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com , ebru
Date claimed: 8th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5106811/
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozproto.c (timespec)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 11th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: v3 under Progress
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozhcd.c (timespec)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 29th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: v2 Under Progress
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozusbsvc.c (timespec)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 29th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: v2 Under Progress
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/serial2002.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Working on next version
Task name: Tiny kernel. Compile out kernel/time/ntp.c, along with adjtimex and similar syscalls.
Claimed by: Gulsah Kose gulsah.1004@gmail.com , gulsah
Date claimed: 13th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: Tiny kernel. Compile out printks below a certain priority level
Claimed by: Kumari Radha kumari.radha3@gmail.com , Radhak
Date claimed: 14th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: Tiny kernel. Make mm/debug.c optional.
Claimed by: Kumari Radha kumari.radha3@gmail.com , Radhak
Date claimed: 20th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: Tiny kernel. Make ustat syscall optional
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 14th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: Tiny kernel. Avoid unnecessary recursion into directories.
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 14th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: Tiny kernel. Drop processor names from intel_cpu_dev.
Claimed by:Catalina Mocanu catalina.mocanu@gmail.com , catalinamocanu
Date claimed: 19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: y2038. ddrivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sir.c (timeval)
Claimed by:Catalina Mocanu catalina.mocanu@gmail.com , catalinamocanu
Date claimed: 19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Tiny kernel. Make flex_array optional.
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 21th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending review
Task name: y2038 media/lirc/lirc_igorplugusb.c
Claimed by: Jiayi Ye yejiayily@gmail.com , JiayiYe
Date claimed: 22th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Tiny kernel. Make lib/rhashtable.c optional, and make the relevant bits of net/ select it.
Claimed by:Catalina Mocanu catalina.mocanu@gmail.com , catalinamocanu
Date claimed: 22nd October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Tiny kernel. Make lib/halfmd4.c optional, and make ext3 and ext4 select it.
Claimed by:Catalina Mocanu catalina.mocanu@gmail.com , catalinamocanu
Date claimed: 22nd October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: y2038. Fix the android logger time format (drivers/staging/android/logger.c)
Claimed by: Somya Anand somyaanand214@gmail.com , somya
Date claimed: 26th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Task name: y2038. struct pstore_info
Claimed by: Somya Anand somyaanand214@gmail.com , somya
Date claimed: 26th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: y2038 fs/reiserfs/journal.c
Claimed by: Ruchandani Tina ruchandani.tina@gmail.com, tinar
Date claimed: 27th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Review done, revisions in progress
Task name: y2038 Migrate drivers/staging/lustre/lnet
Claimed by: Ruchandani Tina ruchandani.tina@gmail.com, tinar
Date claimed: 28th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: y2038 drivers/s390/net/ctcm_fsms.c
Claimed by: Aya Mahfouz mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com, ayamahfouz
Date claimed: 27th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Pending Review
Task name: y2038 sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr_core.c
Claimed by: Aya Mahfouz mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com, ayamahfouz
Date claimed: 27th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Awaiting merge notification
Task name: y2038 sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr.c
Claimed by: Aya Mahfouz mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com, ayamahfouz
Date claimed: 27th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Awaiting merge notification
Task name: y2038 Convert all 'ptp' users in the kernel
Claimed by: Aya Mahfouz mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com, ayamahfouz
Date claimed: 28th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: y2038 Convert all 'struct key' users (time_t)
Claimed by: Aya Mahfouz mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com, ayamahfouz
Date claimed: 28th October 2014
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP

Completed Tasks

Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/bcm/LeakyBucket.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Somya Anand somyaanand214@gmail.com , somya
Date claimed: 13th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: bcm driver has been deleted from the tree.
Current status: Completed, Acknowledged by Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
Task name: Tiny kernel. mm: Turn struct contig_page_data into .bss
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 7th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux.git/commit/?h=tiny/contig_page_data
Current status: Completed
Task name: Tiny kernel. x86: rtc: Make writing time to RTC optional
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 7th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux.git/commit/?h=tiny/rtc-optional
Current status: Completed
Task name: Tiny kernel. Only include mm/highmem.c if CONFIG_HIGHMEM
Claimed by: Iulia Manda iulia.manda21@gmail.com , iulia_
Date claimed: 9th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: The possible solution wouldn't reduce the size.
Current status: Completed
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 11th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/commit/?h=staging-testing&id=2c1bfc3be0fc525d95ff5983bf8ea3f2aff24d1b
Current status: Completed
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/android/sync_debug.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 11th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/commit/?h=staging-testing&id=353fdf17060b15d1d857899cd3ed9d5db4818acf
Current status: Completed.
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/ft1000/ (time_t and timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 11th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=4115d2b27a50b4864db286545cd250b1dc6aff2b
Current status: Completed.
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/gdm72xx/ (timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=36f4246e893bb1de770295e0da72cc83649ed17b
Current status: Completed.
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=786e2883af152f244e3367a7c001b67b1c7284c9
Current status: Completed.
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=db77d73bffbc40017f3cd6891380fc56f6ed56ca
Current status: Completed.
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_parallel.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Tapasweni Pathak tapaswenipathak@gmail.com , tapasweni
Date claimed: 19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=45446a99cef65aba81c0e59279f100bdb5624acd
Current status: Completed.
Task name: y2038 sound/pci/es1968.c
Claimed by: Tina Ruchandani ruchandani.tina@gmail.com, tinar
Date claimed: 25th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: Patch applied by Takashi Iwai. Link TBD.
Current status: Completed
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Somya Anand somyaanand214@gmail.com , somya
Date claimed: 13th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/commit/?h=staging-testing&id=36beff6e20740e055c11ec87d9f41ea54a842db5
Current status: Completed
Task name: y2038. drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_test.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Somya Anand somyaanand214@gmail.com , somya
Date claimed: 13th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/commit/?h=staging-testing&id=dd28153b2a8ca216350a9f42de58cf3a966cba30
Current status: Completed
Task name: y2038 drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c
Claimed by: Somya Anand somyaanand214@gmail.com , somya
Date claimed:19th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/commit/?h=staging-testing&id=d2b778712e3aa5258fabbb96ed05bcb073a1ce2e
Current status: Completed
Task name: y2038. kernel/power/hibernate.c (timeval)
Claimed by: Ruchandani Tina ruchandani.tina@gmail.com, tinar
Date claimed: 26th October 2014
Links to patch submissions: Accepted for 3.19-rc1 by Rafael Wysocki. Link TBD.
Current status: Completed.