Re: My effort to learn Linux kernel development
From: Robert P. J. Day <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-24 19:38:31
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, Constantine Shulyupin wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 17:57, Robert P. J. Day [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
as the tech editor of the r. love kernel book, i can safely say that there are no really current kernel books out there anymore -- the best docs are the in-kernel ones. also, if you want to get started mucking with the kernel and submitting patches, consider improving the documentation -- there is a lot of documentation that is at least a little out of date and could use all the help it can get, and that's an easy and safe way to get started getting your name into the kernel git log.Here is an attempt to write a new https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Linux_Kernel What do you think?
no. just ... no. if you want to invest your time in writing docs, work on the in-kernel docs. and i speak as someone who wrote a lot of docs and kept them at my own web site for years until i realized that was counter-productive. rday _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies