Best and fastest way to understand kernel subsystem ?
From: matthias.bgg@gmail.com (Matthias Brugger)
Date: 2012-12-06 12:53:22
From: matthias.bgg@gmail.com (Matthias Brugger)
Date: 2012-12-06 12:53:22
On 12/06/2012 10:54 AM, Shraddha Kamat wrote:
What is the best (and the fastest ) way to understand a kernel subsystem ( for e.g., filesystem , Networking .. etc.)
If you are a beginner it might be convenient to look on a small subsystem first. The filesystem is really big and complicated, I think. If you are familiar with the embedded world, maybe something like spi or i2c might be a good starting point. If you want to understand networking, maybe starting with the tun/tap kernel module and try to understand how it "injects"/"grabs" packets/frames from/to userspace. This way you learn something on the data structures of the network subsystem. Just my 3 cents. Cheers, Matthias
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