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 [:OPWIntro: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:

1. Create a kernelnewbies account and make sure to remember your password. Password reset does not always work.
2. 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.
3. If you do not get access within three business days (weekdays), start asking for access on IRC.
4. Claim a task by adding the information from this template:
5. Task name:
6. Date claimed:
7. Links to patch submissions:
8. 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/projects#small_projects 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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: [http://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 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.