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From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Beginner guide
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:04:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1406111401570.32684@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10610.1402509302@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:58:02 +0530, Prudhvee Narasimha Sadha said:
>
> >      I just want to know what I should learn and any suggested books to
> > learn kernel programming.
>
> Learn C.  Learn C *really* well.  Especially the way the Linux
> kernel implements object-oriented concepts using callbacks through
> structures of function pointers (struct file_ops, etc...)

  particularly gcc extensions that are used extensively in the kernel:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Extensions.html

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-11 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-11  6:28 Beginner guide Prudhvee Narasimha Sadha
2014-06-11  6:47 ` Asutosh Das
2014-06-11  7:05 ` Pranay Srivastava
2014-06-11  7:21   ` Rohan Puri
2014-06-11 12:08     ` sanjeev sharma
2014-06-11 13:39 ` Ben
2014-06-11 14:55   ` Pranay Srivastava
2014-06-11 17:27     ` Saurabh Jain
2014-06-11 17:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-06-11 18:04   ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-29 13:24 Beginner Guide Jie Ping Quek
2013-05-29 13:48 ` Ian Campbell
2013-05-29 13:56   ` Ben Guthro
2013-05-30  7:52   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen

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