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From: me@tobin.cc (Tobin C. Harding)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Don't know where to start linux kernel programming
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:55:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170822225516.GF10531@eros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdsRtpDkKZeWSAs4AG6z3f-MawaCYYJWN9XnpFWSnsqak23WA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 04:22:34PM +0530, SUNIL KHORWAL wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to linux kernel programming, I want to be a linux kernel hacker but
> i don't know where to start.
> Please help me.

I recently wrote some blog posts on this topic. You can check them out at

	http://tobin.cc/blog

Greg is correct (as usual), there are loads of things to do in drivers/staging/*

IMHO don't bother venturing far outside of staging for a while, and definitely don't submit cleanup
patches to code outside of staging. You can safely get started learning kernel dev process patching
staging/*

Good luck,
Tobin.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2017-08-22 10:52 ` Don't know where to start linux kernel programming SUNIL KHORWAL
2017-08-22 11:14   ` Kamil Konieczny
2017-08-22 11:15     ` SUNIL KHORWAL
2017-08-22 22:52       ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-08-22 16:48     ` Cindy-Sue Causey
2017-08-22 16:59       ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
2017-08-22 17:39         ` Greg KH
2017-08-23 15:36           ` Umair Khan
2017-08-23 22:57             ` Greg KH
2017-08-25  2:34               ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-08-23 20:08           ` Ruben Safir
2017-08-23 22:56             ` Greg KH
2017-08-22 23:26       ` Greg Freemyer
2017-08-23  9:34         ` Ruben Safir
2017-08-23 12:24           ` Daniel.
2017-08-23 23:46           ` Greg Freemyer
2017-08-24  0:03             ` Ruben Safir
2017-08-24  0:23               ` Greg Freemyer
2017-08-24  0:46               ` Greg KH
2017-08-24  1:56                 ` Ruben Safir
2017-08-22 15:04   ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
2017-08-22 22:55   ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]

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