Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261709AbTIOJxH (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:53:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261718AbTIOJxH (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:53:07 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-244-189.webone.com.au ([210.9.244.189]:11525 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261709AbTIOJxG (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:53:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3F658BF1.6070703@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:52:49 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Drake CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Developing Kernel Code newbie References: <000d01c37b5f$47722b80$1101a8c0@CARTMAN> <3F6579CD.5010609@cyberone.com.au> <3F658B36.2010503@reactivated.net> In-Reply-To: <3F658B36.2010503@reactivated.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 22 Daniel Drake wrote: > I'm in a similar situation here.. a C/C++ beginner, very keen to work > on the Linux kernel. > Those two books you mentioned, the latest editions cover the 2.4 > series kernel. Would reading these still be useful for working on the > 2.6 (and onwards) kernels? Yes. If you are a _programming_ beginner, you're setting your sights a too high and will probably get frustrated. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/