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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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-11 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ 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]
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