Ask HN: Project ideas for a Linux kernel module

• pbbr

  1 31 10.0 C

  Provider Backbone Bridging for Linux

  

Perhaps you can work on the new promising Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) in the Linux kernel that has not been very popular as it should be [1],[2],[3].

[1] 802.1Q-2018 - IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Network--Bridges and Bridged Networks:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8403927

[2] Provider Backbone Bridging for Linux:

https://github.com/openss7/pbbr

[3] Are there inherent problems with 802.1aq preventing wider adoption?

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/8gez0r/are_ther...

• linux

  2 1 0.0 C

  Linux kernel source tree (by pabs3)

Probably the most useful thing you could do would be take any Android device (or iOS device with the bootrom exploit) and rebase the patches for it on mainline, clean them up and get them merged into mainline Linux. Same goes for any other device not supported in mainline really, but Android devices are almost always like this.

Along those lines, look at all the dkms modules in any Linux distro and try to talk to the module authors about mainlining, do the work needed if they agree to it.

Also, I have some ideas for Linux kernel things I noticed are needed in my branches of linux.git: https://github.com/pabs3/linux/branches/all

  cleanups/bluetooth-magic-numbers

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• hp_omen_led_controler

  1 2 10.0 C

  Linux kernel module that exposes keyboard leds in the hp omen laptops.

• bouffalo_sdk

  14 342 8.3 C

  BouffaloSDK is the IOT and MCU software development kit provided by the Bouffalo Lab Team, supports all the series of Bouffalo chips. Also it is the combination of bl_mcu_sdk and bl_iot_sdk

  

The chip has complete-ish sdk here(https://github.com/bouffalolab/bouffalo_sdk) we use as "documentation". Datasheet and the reference manual are incomplete.

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