Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754421AbXHVAsa (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:48:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752121AbXHVAsU (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:48:20 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.240]:37324 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751042AbXHVAsU (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:48:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LmB38pVgyaBBvUSSqpzU18271KHtR9fcPfY/UKMyU6bZqBwIa2ryGn29UdwerQRhD38pgPJVebhQRHhmp3E4CJMcrT4wDRGIvCcM3PcLhXJQzJnEVmYkm4OickVlRqECCp2e4U2QBa9izO+fVUpeaTyyqgJiBCzFEZCfpHkRgTg= Message-ID: <9a8748490708211748v4c1aacbak3a44f893d08381ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:48:16 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Noud Aldenhoven" Subject: Re: How to learn Linux Kernel Programming Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1840 Lines: 62 On 21/08/07, Noud Aldenhoven wrote: > Hello Kernel Develop mailing list, > ... > > I'm a simple Math/Computer Science student and would like to learn > more about linux and it's kernel. > To be more precise, I'd to learn how to program in the linux kernel > and maybe become a developer, > if everything goes fine. > But where do I start? Start by reading Documentation/HOWTO from a recent copy of the kernel source. > Almost all information I found on the Internet > if from before 2005 There's lots of good kernel related material to be found online. See for example : http://kernelnewbies.org/ http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/ http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ http://lwn.net/Kernel/ http://kerneltrap.org/ http://kerneltraffic.org/ > and I think that > means it's out-of-date. That's not always true. > Are there up-to-date documentations that are > use full to read and explain how > the kernel is build. (for example, is /usr/src/linux/Documentation a > use full dir?) Yes it is useful. Not everything in there is 100% up-to-date, but there is still a *LOT* of useful documentation to be found there. > An other question I'd like to ask is how and where did you start? I'd > like to know how you manage to became > linux kernel developers. > Most people start out fixing small bugs, cleanups etc or by implementing some small feature or driver that they need. There's no fixed way. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/