From: matthias.bgg@gmail.com (Matthias Brugger)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Best and fastest way to understand kernel subsystem ?
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:53:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C09542.4020804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354787651.22307.3.camel@oc2826874472.ibm.com>
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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> -- Shraddha
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-06 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 9:54 Best and fastest way to understand kernel subsystem ? Shraddha Kamat
2012-12-06 11:46 ` Abhijit Pawar
2012-12-06 12:02 ` rush
2012-12-06 12:14 ` Abhijit Pawar
2012-12-06 12:53 ` Matthias Brugger [this message]
2012-12-06 13:34 ` Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
2012-12-07 4:52 ` sanjeev sharma
2012-12-08 16:31 ` Mulyadi Santosa
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