* Learning Linux Kernel
@ 2011-12-12 23:39 Kaushal Shriyan
2011-12-12 23:47 ` Jeff Haran
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From: Kaushal Shriyan @ 2011-12-12 23:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hi
I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very
exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am
basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and
setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache
etc...
Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start
learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase
sometimes down the line.
Please guide/suggest me.
Regards,
Kaushal
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-12 23:39 Learning Linux Kernel Kaushal Shriyan @ 2011-12-12 23:47 ` Jeff Haran 2011-12-12 23:50 ` Greg KH 2011-12-12 23:51 ` Alexandru Juncu 2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Jeff Haran @ 2011-12-12 23:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies From: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Kaushal Shriyan Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 3:40 PM To: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org Subject: Learning Linux Kernel Hi? I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache etc... Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase sometimes down the line.? Please guide/suggest me. Regards, Kaushal If you don't know C, you'll probably will want to start with a C tutorial. You can skip learning assembly languages for now, there is very little of it in the kernel sources and it varies a lot from processor to processor, but you'll need to understand C very well in order to really understand the kernel. Jeff Haran ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-12 23:39 Learning Linux Kernel Kaushal Shriyan 2011-12-12 23:47 ` Jeff Haran @ 2011-12-12 23:50 ` Greg KH 2011-12-12 23:51 ` Alexandru Juncu 2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Greg KH @ 2011-12-12 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:09:40AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start > learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase > sometimes down the line. Please learn C first, that is essential. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-12 23:39 Learning Linux Kernel Kaushal Shriyan 2011-12-12 23:47 ` Jeff Haran 2011-12-12 23:50 ` Greg KH @ 2011-12-12 23:51 ` Alexandru Juncu 2011-12-13 0:07 ` Kaushal Shriyan 2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Alexandru Juncu @ 2011-12-12 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very > exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am > basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and > setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache > etc... > > Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start > learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase sometimes > down the line. > Please guide/suggest me. > > Regards, Hello! I think people appreciate your enthusiasm. I do think that knowing C programming is a prerequisite. So you need to start with that. For the theory, if you want to start learning how the kernel works, I recommend the book Linux Kernel Development [1] by Robert Love. Another thing I would give you is this video [2] to know how to submit your first patch. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref=pd_sim_b_3 [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-12 23:51 ` Alexandru Juncu @ 2011-12-13 0:07 ` Kaushal Shriyan 2011-12-13 0:25 ` Javier Martinez Canillas ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Kaushal Shriyan @ 2011-12-13 0:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@rosedu.org>wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan > <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been > very > > exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am > > basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and > > setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache > > etc... > > > > Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start > > learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase > sometimes > > down the line. > > Please guide/suggest me. > > > > Regards, > > Hello! > > I think people appreciate your enthusiasm. I do think that knowing C > programming is a prerequisite. So you need to start with that. > For the theory, if you want to start learning how the kernel works, I > recommend the book Linux Kernel Development [1] by Robert Love. > Another thing I would give you is this video [2] to know how to submit > your first patch. > > [1] > http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref=pd_sim_b_3 > [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4 > Hi Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the world who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which mentions about it? Regards Kaushal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20111213/9a4f8049/attachment.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-13 0:07 ` Kaushal Shriyan @ 2011-12-13 0:25 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2011-12-13 0:30 ` Greg KH 2011-12-13 6:20 ` nilesh 2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Javier Martinez Canillas @ 2011-12-13 0:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@rosedu.org> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan >> <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been >> > very >> > exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am >> > basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring >> > and >> > setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache >> > etc... >> > >> > Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start >> > learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase >> > sometimes >> > down the line. >> > Please guide/suggest me. >> > >> > Regards, >> >> Hello! >> >> I think people appreciate your enthusiasm. I do think that knowing C >> programming is a prerequisite. So you need to start with that. >> For the theory, if you want to start learning how the kernel works, I >> recommend the book Linux Kernel Development [1] by Robert Love. >> Another thing I would give you is this video [2] to know how to submit >> your first patch. >> >> [1] >> http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref=pd_sim_b_3 >> [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4 > > > > Hi > > Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the > world who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which > mentions about it? > > Regards > These are a statistics page, not sure how accurate it is though: http://www.remword.com/kps_result/ I think that the best place to look at this are the annual reports of the Linux foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/lf_linux_kernel_development_2010.pdf Best regards, -- Javier Mart?nez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 Barcelona, Spain ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-13 0:07 ` Kaushal Shriyan 2011-12-13 0:25 ` Javier Martinez Canillas @ 2011-12-13 0:30 ` Greg KH 2011-12-13 4:30 ` Victor Rodriguez 2011-12-13 6:20 ` nilesh 2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Greg KH @ 2011-12-13 0:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:37:56AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the world > who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which mentions > about it? The Linux Foundation has a report every year about this detailing this type of information. Also, lwn.net reports on this every kernel release, see those articles for details. Oh, and as a teaser, for the past year of releases, 2.6.36 - 3.1.0 (October 2010 to October 2011) there was 2889 different developers who got patches accepted into the Linux kernel codebase. greg k-h ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-13 0:30 ` Greg KH @ 2011-12-13 4:30 ` Victor Rodriguez 2011-12-13 14:34 ` Kaushal Shriyan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Victor Rodriguez @ 2011-12-13 4:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:37:56AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the world >> who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which mentions >> about it? > > The Linux Foundation has a report every year about this detailing this > type of information. ?Also, lwn.net reports on this every kernel > release, see those articles for details. > > Oh, and as a teaser, for the past year of releases, 2.6.36 - 3.1.0 > (October 2010 to October 2011) there was 2889 different developers who > got patches accepted into the Linux kernel codebase. > > greg k-h > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies Hi Kaushal Goof to hear you want to be part of Linux Kernel, here is a good article of How to participate on the Linux Community http://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/how-participate-linux-community-0 Learn GIT (maybe you already know it ) http://git-scm.com/ Clone the mainstream Kernel by it self http://kernel.org/ Check the code you will see that must of the code is in C Now after you feel confident on C (recommended book = C Programming Language Kernighan) you can start to run the latest Kernel on your Linux machine, subscribe to an specific Mailing list of development you want to follow, apply the RFC patches and check if it works , suggest new ideas or even work on the solution for existing bugs in bugzila. Have fun :) Check on the article for this good advice Andrew Morton gives this advice for aspiring kernel developers The #1 project for all kernel beginners should surely be "make sure that the kernel runs perfectly at all times on all machines which you can lay your hands on". Usually the way to do this is to work with others on getting things fixed up (this can require persistence!) but that's fine--it's a part of kernel development. Hope it helps Victor Rodriguez ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-13 4:30 ` Victor Rodriguez @ 2011-12-13 14:34 ` Kaushal Shriyan 2011-12-13 18:37 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Kaushal Shriyan @ 2011-12-13 14:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:37:56AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >> Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in > the world > >> who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which > mentions > >> about it? > > > > The Linux Foundation has a report every year about this detailing this > > type of information. Also, lwn.net reports on this every kernel > > release, see those articles for details. > > > > Oh, and as a teaser, for the past year of releases, 2.6.36 - 3.1.0 > > (October 2010 to October 2011) there was 2889 different developers who > > got patches accepted into the Linux kernel codebase. > > > > greg k-h > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > Hi Kaushal > > Goof to hear you want to be part of Linux Kernel, here is a good > article of How to participate on the Linux Community > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/how-participate-linux-community-0 > > Learn GIT (maybe you already know it ) > > http://git-scm.com/ > > Clone the mainstream Kernel by it self > > http://kernel.org/ > > Check the code you will see that must of the code is in C > > Now after you feel confident on C (recommended book = C Programming > Language Kernighan) you can start to run the latest Kernel on your > Linux machine, subscribe to an specific Mailing list of development > you want to follow, apply the RFC patches and check if it works , > suggest new ideas or even work on the solution for existing bugs in > bugzila. Have fun :) > > Check on the article for this good advice > > Andrew Morton gives this advice for aspiring kernel developers > > The #1 project for all kernel beginners should surely be "make sure > that the kernel runs perfectly at all times on all machines which you > can lay your hands on". Usually the way to do this is to work with > others on getting things fixed up (this can require persistence!) but > that's fine--it's a part of kernel development. > > Hope it helps > > Victor Rodriguez > Hi Victor, Thanks a lot for the encouragement. I am obliged and got motivated. You said "subscribe to an specific Mailing list of development you want to follow, apply the RFC patches and check if it works ,suggest new ideas or even work on the solution for existing bugs in bugzilla" Development of Kernel Mailing list -> http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-1 is this correct ? Not sure about RFC Patches and existing bugs in bugzilla. Please point me to the relevant web page. Regards Kaushal, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20111213/e7f28d98/attachment-0001.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-13 14:34 ` Kaushal Shriyan @ 2011-12-13 18:37 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Neuschäfer @ 2011-12-13 18:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:04:06PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25@gmail.com>wrote: > > subscribe to an specific Mailing list of development > > you want to follow, apply the RFC patches and check if it works , > > suggest new ideas or even work on the solution for existing bugs in > > bugzila. Have fun :) > > Development of Kernel Mailing list -> http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-1 is this > correct ? There are different mailing lists for the different subsystems/parts of the kernel. The MAINTAINERS file and scripts/get_maintainer.pl in the source code list them. > Not sure about RFC Patches and existing bugs in bugzilla. Please point me > to the relevant web page. RFC in this case means "request for comments"; these are just patches that are not finalized/applied to the subsystem maintainers' git trees yet. Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/) is currently not available. HTH, Jonathan Neusch?fer ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Learning Linux Kernel 2011-12-13 0:07 ` Kaushal Shriyan 2011-12-13 0:25 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2011-12-13 0:30 ` Greg KH @ 2011-12-13 6:20 ` nilesh 2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: nilesh @ 2011-12-13 6:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Tuesday 13 December 2011 05:37 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Alexandru Juncu<alex.juncu@rosedu.org>wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan >> <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote: [...] >> >> [1] >> http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref=pd_sim_b_3 >> [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4 >> > > > Hi > > Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the > world who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which > mentions about it? Also you might want to check this video uploaded on Youtube. Nice explanation on how exactly the Kernel Developers' community works, along with the statistics (old ones, though). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw > > Regards > > Kaushal > -- Thanks, Nilesh ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
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