From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:15:01 +0000 Subject: Re: Opinion about Linux Foundation courses Message-Id: <20100909011501.GA2358@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:08:08PM -0700, Adarsh Joshi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The documentation is great but I think Andre means that the courses give > more confidence. Why? > I am a kernel newbie as well and as all beginners are suggested, I have > subscribed to kernel.org mailing lists. I do understand some of the mails > but not most of them. It just gets a bit overwhelming most of the times > which is not very helpful. Then don't subscribe to the lists, but start with the documentation that we have. It's a lot. Then ask specific questions on the kernelnewbies mailing list if you have them, or on the subsystem mailing lists. > It would be great if there is there any documentation on how to interpret > these emails and start working on them. Ask questions about them, we don't know what you are having problems with unless you say. thanks, greg k-h