I love doing quick, hacks to improve stuff. Sometimes it's even more fun if it's a system I'm not familiar with. Not really a 'bug', but I made Linux boot faster off of USB pen drive type devices by adding a wait queue:
Although I don't know if it ever made it into the official kernel, as I got tired of prodding those guys to either accept it or reject it (and in the meantime they put in some lame hack telling the kernel to wait N seconds before proceeding in the hope that that was long enough to mount the device), but a number of people have thanked me for it over the years.
BTW, I'm in awe of people who spend all their time hacking kernel stuff. It's hard work, and for many things, you risk crashing your whole computer if things go wrong.
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I love doing quick, hacks to improve stuff. Sometimes it's even more fun if it's a system I'm not familiar with. Not really a 'bug', but I made Linux boot faster off of USB pen drive type devices by adding a wait queue:
http://www.welton.it/freesoftware/patches/blkdev_wakeup-2.6....
Although I don't know if it ever made it into the official kernel, as I got tired of prodding those guys to either accept it or reject it (and in the meantime they put in some lame hack telling the kernel to wait N seconds before proceeding in the hope that that was long enough to mount the device), but a number of people have thanked me for it over the years.
BTW, I'm in awe of people who spend all their time hacking kernel stuff. It's hard work, and for many things, you risk crashing your whole computer if things go wrong.