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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>,
	skhan@linuxfoundation.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Doc: process: Added two important books for Linux Kernel programming and development
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:53:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87341hntr0.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260328074745.2309736-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com>

Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> writes:

> These books are very well written and enhance the understanding of the process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/howto.rst | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
> index 9438e03d6f50..c5164a27fc1a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
> @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ experience, the following books are good for, if anything, reference:
>   - "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie [Prentice Hall]
>   - "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline [O'Reilly]
>   - "C:  A Reference Manual" by Harbison and Steele [Prentice Hall]
> -
> + - "Linux System Programming" by Robert Love [O'Reilly]
> + - "Linux Kernel Development" By Robert Love [Pearson]
>  The kernel is written using GNU C and the GNU toolchain.  While it

Adding mention of those books might well be a good thing to do, but
you're adding them in the middle of a section that is talking about C
programming specifically.  It doesn't make much sense to put them there.

Thanks,

jon

      reply	other threads:[~2026-03-30 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-28  7:40 [PATCH] Doc: process: Added two important books for Linux Kernel programming and development Bhaskar Chowdhury
2026-03-30 16:53 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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