Linux Kernel Feature Requests?

[pxumsgdxpcvjm]

Where is the right place to suggest new feature for the kernel?

[bwkaz]

What new feature? It might already be able to do whatever you're thinking of. :) Alternately, whatever you're thinking of may be a really bad idea for some other reason (well, it's possible, though probably unlikely).

To answer your question, probably the best way to make a feature request is to code up the feature yourself, and send the patches on to the kernel mailing list. (The average dev seems to figure that if it's not important enough for someone else to do the work for, then they're not going to spend their free time on it either. Most of the devs got into it by scratching their own itches -- that is, writing their own code.) At least, that's the method that has the highest chance of working (where "working" means "getting the code into the kernel").

Alternately, you could just ask on the mailing list, and see if anyone else does it (though I'd consider asking in a few other places first, just to bounce the idea off others before getting mercilessly tormented on the kernel list if someone doesn't think it's a good idea). It may also make more sense to ask on a subsystem-specific list instead of the kernel-wide one, but that would require knowing what subsystem in the kernel the feature would apply to.

[Sorrofix]

Agreed with bwkaz. The Linux kernel really has a lot of stuff coded, chances are that if the feature you require really isn't there, you're doing something so specialized that the vast majority of the developers simply don't need it (after all, if they did need it, they would have coded it by now. ;)). In short, it's up to you to implement a feature which is 'missing' from the kernel.