Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030262AbVKPRkS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:40:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030278AbVKPRkS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:40:18 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:19634 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030262AbVKPRkQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:40:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:40:21 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [RFC] HOWTO do Linux kernel development - take 2 Message-ID: <20051116174021.GE24753@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20051115210459.GA11363@kroah.com> <1132162089.21643.87.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1132162089.21643.87.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 27 On Wed, 16 November 2005 17:28:09 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 13:05 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > - "Programming the 80386" by Crawford and Gelsinger [Sybek] > > Maybe, but on the whole I suspect we'd do well if fewer people were > thinking about one particular legacy architecture when writing kernel > code. > > Newbie kernel hackers ought to be working on something SMP, big-endian > and 64-bit. Get into good habits right away. And make their on-medium format the opposite from their hardware. It is so much nicer if a missing conversion here and there _does_ cause problems. J?rn -- Correctness comes second. Features come third. Performance comes last. Maintainability is needed for all of them. - 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/