Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

[Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 18:31 +0000, Philippe Elie wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 at 16:23 +0000, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rik.
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:01:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > The kernel newbies community often gets inquiries from CS students who
> > > need a project for their studies and would like to do something with
> > > the Linux kernel, but would also like their code to be useful to the
> > > community afterwards.
> > > 
> 
> ... 
> 
> > Increase speed for a build with no updates
> > ==========================================
> > On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes
> > roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated.
> > Generating one single Makefile is assumed to speed up things
> > and will in addition allow a simpler syntax as what is used today
> > for some of the uglier constructs.
> > 
> > Contact: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> > Difficulty: 5
> > Language: Perl or C
> 
> Isn't make -j 2 or more implemented by running multiple make in sub-dirs ?
> Parallel make is more and more used even on cheap hardware.

Errm, I misread what you said, it can be a single Makefile in each sub-dirs

> 
> -- 
> Phe
> 

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