Re: Beware - kernel Newbie!

[Pedro Diaz Jimenez <pdiaz88@terra.es>]

Thanks to all,

I've just found http://www.linuxnewbie.org to be a good start point

Pedro

On Sunday 18 February 2001 23:57, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Pedro Diaz Jimenez wrote:
> > This is an typical mail from an experienced user-land programmer who
> > wants to help in kernel development ;D.
> >
> > I've been lurking for a while in this list and I'm wondering if this is
> > the right list for asking stupid newbie questions. Is it?. If not, do you
> > know one?. Where I can find documentation?
>
> We are always welcome to answer newbie -kernel hacking- questions...
> just ask specific ones.  For example, ask "how does struct netdevice's
> last_rx member get used?", not "what do I need to do to write a network
> driver?"....
>
> The documentation is in linux/Documentation/*
>
he he
> > (yeah, yeah, read the code. But
> > things are always better with an 'vi   Doc.txt' in the processes tree :)
>
> Really.  The code is the best documentation.  Hone your code reading
> skills.  Use the source, Luke.
>
> 	Jeff
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