From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
operational.people@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where I can find the guide/help to device driver development
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:41:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120416144158.GB5215@x1.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120415192950.GB11036@home.goodmis.org>
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:29:51PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:37:04 -0400 (EDT)
> > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Vishal Nandanwar <operational.people@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:59:02 +0530
> > >
> > > > I am new in Linux device driver development. Currently I am learning
> > > > drivers from the book "Linux device drivers" by Rubini. This book is
> > > > quite big and quite boring. What are the ways to learn the drivers?
> > > >
> > > > Do any one have any guide in video or PPT format or in any other format?
> > >
> > > Sorry, nobody is going to produce and direct a science fiction film
> > > about kernel development just to make it more interesting for you.
> >
> > I don't know...this could actually be kind of fun...
> >
>
> Jon, I blame you for not putting in a QotW this week. The OP is an
> obvious troll, fishing for new material to give you. This is his second
> post: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/13/66
>
> I guess old Vishal was upset (like many others) about not seeing any
> good quotes on LWN, and decided to go trolling for some. Asking this
> question (more than once) is a sure way to secure a good juice QotW on
> LWN for next week.
>
> Moral of the story is... Don't whimp out on posting QotWs on LWN,
> otherwise you get trolls fishing for material, and you happen to be the
> one that supplies it (sortof defeating the point).
Oh, I'm very happy Jon did that - I'm ROTFLing here :-) Jon, good job,
can we get the next three movies now too ... :-)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-16 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-15 4:29 Where I can find the guide/help to device driver development Vishal Nandanwar
2012-04-15 4:37 ` David Miller
2012-04-15 18:14 ` Jonathan Corbet
2012-04-15 19:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-16 14:41 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-04-16 0:40 ` Ted Ts'o
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