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

Create a kernelnewbies account and make sure to remember your password. Password reset does not always work.
Get an Outreachy mentor or coordinator to give you edit privileges by sending an email to the outreachy-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:
Claimed by:
Date claimed:
Links to patch submissions:
Current status:

Important Update Please specify a special subject for the small task patches so that they can be distinguished from the cleanup patches. For instance, for small tasks related to Ezequiel's NAND project, specify [PATCH NAND] as the subject.

Ongoing Tasks from round 16

Task name: mtd/nand: Replace printk() with appropriate pr_*() macro
Claimed by: Shreeya Patel
Date claimed: 13-02-2018
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP

Completed Tasks from round 16

Task name: mtd/nand: Replace printk() with appropriate pr_*() macro
Claimed by: Shreeya Patel
Date claimed: 22-02-2018
Links to patch submissions: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10235949/

Ongoing Tasks from round 15

Task name: staging: iio: ade7759.c: replace mlock with driver private lock
Claimed by: Katie Dunne
Date claimed: 18-09-2017
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Kernel GPU subsystem: tinydrm: Refactor code: Move backlight helpers to separate file
Claimed by: Meghana Madhyastha
Date claimed: 25-09-2017
Links to patch submissions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/outreachy-kernel/8rBe30lwtdA
Current status: WIP
Task name: Kernel GPU subsystem: amdgpu: Replace ref/unref with get/put
Claimed by: Meghana Madhyastha
Date claimed: 26-09-2017
Links to patch submissions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/outreachy-kernel/7opKFtn_MzY
Current status: WIP
Task name: nftables: Document limitations on identifer name
Claimed by: Keerthi Reddy
Date claimed: 04-10-2017
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: staging: iio: ade7758_core: replace mlock with driver private lock
Claimed by: Himanshi Jain
Date claimed: 06-10-2017
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP

Completed Tasks from round 15

Task name: staging: iio: ade7753: replace mlock with driver private lock
Claimed by: Himanshi Jain
Date claimed: 17-09-2017
Links to patch submissions: ACK'd 9/24
Task name: staging: iio: ade7753: expanding buffer lock to cover both state and buffer protection
Claimed by: Himanshi Jain
Date claimed: 30-09-2017
Links to patch submissions: ACK'd 10/01
Task name: staging: iio: ad7192: replace mlock with driver private lock
Claimed by: Aastha Gupta
Date claimed: 25-09-2017
Links to patch submissions: ACK'd 10/09

IIO Coding Task 2 - Round 14

Use this list for claiming the mlock coding tasks. Add your name to claim it. Add the date when it is ACK'd. Add the PATCH link when it is Applied.

accel/adis16201.c: Aishwarya Pant ACK'd 3/19
accel/adis16203.c: Gargi Sharma ACK'd 3/23
accel/adis16209.c: NarcisaVasile ACK'd 3/19
accel/adis16240.c: Varsha Rao, ACK'd 3/18
adc/ad7192.c: Sayli Karnik
adc/ad7280a.c:Gargi Sharma, ACK'd 3/19
adc/ad7606.c: ArushiSinghal, ACK'd 3/23
cdc/ad7746.c: Aishwarya Pant ACK'd 3/16
frequency/ad9832.c: AlisonSchofield, re-ACK'd 3/13 PATCH
frequency/ad9834.c: Sayli Karnik, ACK'd 3/13
gyro/adis16060_core.c: simran singhal ACK'd 3/23
impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c: NarcisaVasile
meter/ade7753.c: simran singhal
meter/ade7754.c: Gargi Sharma
meter/ade7758_core.c: Sayli Karnik
meter/ade7759.c: ArushiSinghal

Ongoing Tasks from round 14

Completed Tasks from round 14

Ongoing Tasks from round 13

Task name: Staging: iio: meter: ade7753: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_* with IIO_CHAN_INFO_*
Claimed by: Sandhya Bankar
Date claimed: 26 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions:
Current status:WIP
Task name: Fix endianness warnings in drivers/iio/proximity/pulsedlight-lidar-lite-v2.c
Claimed by: Sayli Karnik
Date claimed: 28 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Task 1: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_* with IIO_CHAN_INFO_* in adis16136.c
Claimed by: Juliana Rodrigues
Date claimed: 11 Oct 2016
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Task 1: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_* with IIO_CHAN_INFO_* in max1363.c
Claimed by: Juliana Rodrigues
Date claimed: 12 Oct 2016
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Task 1: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_* with IIO_CHAN_INFO_* in inv_mpu_core.c
Claimed by: Juliana Rodrigues
Date claimed: 13 Oct 2016
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP

Completed Tasks (Round 13)

Task name:
Claimed by:
Date claimed:
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Current status:
Task name: iio: imu: bmi160: bmi160_core: Fix sparse endianness warning
Claimed by: Sayli Karnik
Date claimed: 2 Oct 2016
Links to patch submissions: iio: bmi160_core: Fix sparse endianness warning due to incorrect type in assignment
Current status: Complete
Task name: Replace IIO_DEVICE_ATTR with IIO_CHAN_INFO_* in drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7746.c
Claimed by: Eva Rachel Retuya
Date claimed: 08-10-2016
Links to patch submissions: staging: iio: cdc: ad7746: implement IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ
Current status: Complete
Task name: staging: iio: cdc: ad7152: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_SAMP_FREQ with IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ
Claimed by: Sayli Karnik
Date claimed: 29 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions: cdc: ad7152: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_SAMP_FREQ with IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ
Current status: Complete
Task name: Fix endianness warnings in drivers/iio/temperature code
Claimed by: Sayli Karnik
Date claimed: 26 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions: Fix endianness warnings in drivers/iio/temperature/maxim_thermocouple.c
Current status: Complete
Task name: Staging: iio: meter: ade7758_core: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_* with IIO_CHAN_INFO_*
Claimed by: Sandhya Bankar
Date claimed: 03 Oct 2016
Links to patch submissions: Staging: iio: meter: ade7758_core: implement IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ
Current status: Complete
Task name: Replace IIO_DEV_ATTR_* with IIO_CHAN_INFO_* in drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7192.c
Claimed by: Eva Rachel Retuya
Date claimed: 24-09-2016
Links to patch submissions: staging: iio: ad7192: implement IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ
Current status: Complete
Task name: Replace IIO_DEVICE_ATTR with IIO_CHAN_INFO_* in drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_core.c
Claimed by: Eva Rachel Retuya
Date claimed: 06-10-2016
Links to patch submissions: staging: iio: ad7606: implement IIO_CHAN_INFO_OVERSAMPLING_RATIO
Current status: Complete
Task name: IIO coding Task:02 Fix endianness warnings.
Claimed by: Sandhya Bankar
Date claimed: 25 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions: iio: magnetometer: Fix sparse endianness warnings cast to restricted __le16
Current status: Complete
Task name: IIO coding Task 02: Fix endianness warnings.
Claimed by: Sandhya Bankar
Date claimed: 25 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions: iio: chemical: Fix sparse endianness warnings cast to restricted __be16
Current status: Complete
Task name: IIO coding Task 02: Fix endianness warnings
Claimed by: Sandhya Bankar
Date claimed: 24 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions: iio: light: Fix sparse warnings
Current status: Complete
Task name: IIO coding Task: 02 Fix endianness warnings
Claimed by: Sandhya Bankar
Date claimed: 24 Sep 2016
Links to patch submissions:iio: dac: Fix sparse warning
Current status: Complete

Ongoing Tasks from round 12

Task name: nftables: iptables statistic match translation
Claimed by: Laura Garcia
Date claimed: 28 Feb 2016
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP

Completed Tasks (Round 12)

Task name: Coccinelle challenge problem 8
Claimed by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar
Date claimed: 14 March 2016
Links to patch submissions: Convert macro GAT_CONFIG to static inline function
Current status: Complete
Task name: IIO Coding Task 1: Use regmap for device member /iio/light/isl29028
Claimed by: Alison Schofield
Date claimed: 13 Mar 2016
Links to patch submissions: staging: iio: isl29028: use regmap to retrieve struct device
Current status: complete
Task name: nftables: add translation to nft for rt.
Claimed by: Janani Ravichandran.
Date claimed: 6th March, 2016.
Links to patch submissions: http://git.netfilter.org/iptables/commit/?id=9dbb616c2f0c3f7f452acc502e3b623d1b8c36b8
Current status: Completed.
Task name: IIO Coding Task 2: iio device state locking API
Claimed by: Alison Schofield
Date claimed: 24 Feb 2016
Links to patch submissions:iio: core: implement iio_device_{claim & staging: iio: ad7192: use iio_device_{claim
Current status: complete
Task name: IIO Coding Task 1: Use regmap for device member in staging/iio/light/isl29018
Claimed by: Alison Schofield
Date claimed: 21 Feb 2016
Links to patch submissions: staging: iio: isl29018: use regmap to retrieve struct device
Current status: complete
Task name: Convert create_workqueue() usages in drivers/staging/rtl8192e
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla
Date claimed: 20 Feb 2016
Links to patch submissions: Patch 1, Patch 2
Current status: Completed
Task name: Convert create_workqueue() usages in drivers/staging/rtl8192u
Claimed by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar
Date claimed: 19 Feb 2016
Links to patch submissions: staging: rtl8192u: Remove create_workqueue()
Current status: Completed
Task name: Convert create_singlethread_workqueue() usages in drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
Claimed by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar
Date claimed: 20 Feb 2016
Links to patch submissions: staging: octeon: Convert create_singlethread_workqueue()
Current status: Completed

Claimed Tasks from round 11

Task name: Convert the internal timekeeping in fs/nfsd
Claimed by: Ksenija Stanojevic, ksenija.stanojevic@gmail.com , ksenija
Date claimed: 21.10.2015.
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: Show that the modules were successfully loaded.
Claimed by: Navya Sri Nizamkari, navyasri.tech@gmail.com , navya
Date claimed: 24th October, 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: fix all uses of timeval in drivers/scsi/bfa
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 25th October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: drivers/block/sx8.c
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 25th October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: drivers/char/mmtimer.c
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 25th October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 28th October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP
Task name: fix timeval in drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
Claimed by: Alison Schofield
Date claimed: 29th October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: WIP

Completed Tasks:

Task name:
Claimed by:
Date claimed:
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Task name: drivers/firewire/nosy.c
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 22nd October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Completed, Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann < arnd@arndb.de >
Task name: drivers/ide/pdc202xx_new.c
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 22nd October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Completed, Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann < arnd@arndb.de >
Task name: drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasm.h
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 23rd October 2015
Links to patch submissions:
Current status: Completed, Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann < arnd@arndb.de >
Task name: drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
Claimed by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla, amitoj1606@gmail.com , amitoj
Date claimed: 24th October 2015
Links to patch submissions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/commit/?h=char-misc-next&id=526290aa6288e133db18d64c2c175a0a1a58b438
Current status: Completed, Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann < arnd@arndb.de >

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.

KernelNewbies: OutreachyTasks (last edited 2018-02-23 06:25:52 by Shreeya Patel)