Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750753AbVKOVOE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:14:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750754AbVKOVOE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:14:04 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:60547 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbVKOVOB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:14:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:56:18 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Luca Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] HOWTO do Linux kernel development Message-ID: <20051115205618.GA11205@suse.de> References: <20051114220709.GA5234@kroah.com> <20051115201051.GA13473@dreamland.darkstar.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051115201051.GA13473@dreamland.darkstar.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1408 Lines: 38 On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:10:51PM +0100, Luca wrote: > Greg KH ha scritto: > > Intro > > ----- > [...] > > Though they > > are not a good substitute for a solid C education and/or years of > > experience, the following books are good, if anything for reference: > > > > "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie [Prentice Hall] > > "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline [O'Reilly] > > "Programming the 80386" by Crawford and Gelsinger [Sybek] > > "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures" by Curt Schimmel [Addison Wesley] > > Hi Greg, > you may want to add: > > "Linux Kernel Development, 2nd ed." by Robert Love [Novell Press] > and > "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd ed." by J. Corbet, A. Rubini and G. Kroah-Hartman [O'Reilly] > > IMHO the first one is a must-have for beginners who want to have an > overall picture of the kernel and LDD is very helpful when you start doing > some real work :) Those books are good, but this section is just for where to get the basics of C and Unix. The file Documentation/kernel-docs.txt should have a pointer to these two books, and this HOWTO does point to that file. thanks, greg k-h - 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/