From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 04:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: About guiding hello world module submission In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Mayur Patil wrote: > Hi All, > > ?? I am conducting one workshop at FUDCon in which I am trying to > teach how to write and send your first linux kernel device driver. > Could please suggest me the place where I can guide the students to > send the device driver? once upon a time, i wrote an (admittedly-dated) online course on how to get started with kernel programming (and, yes, it needs updating :-P): http://crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/introduction-linux-kernel-programming ignore the $39 reference, the course has been publicly available for free for a while. on the second point -- how to *send* that driver to the kernel -- don't you kind of need a rationale for why you're working on a driver that isn't in the kernel already? i suspect that if you're already competent enough to be writing a driver for something that isn't in the kernel, you probably already know the protocol for submitting it, no? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================