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On Dec 13, 2004, at 23:01, ram mohan wrote: > Hi All, > When we say Linux is open source and we have the sites > where we can download the source from, why is not > linux design (High Level and Low Level) not that well > publicised? (Or is it that I am not aware of - in > which case I would like to know where it is.) > I am looking for a traceability matrix- where I start > with requirements of Linux, dig into the > design(HLD/LLD) and then the source. Well, generally the linux architecture changes so fast that any such documents become nearly immediately out of date and useless. There is some really good _current_ stuff in the Documentation directory of whatever kernel sources you've got, if you want to take a look, but that's about it. There are a number of sites that document some of the simpler API's, but the complex stuff just changes too much for that kind of thing to be useful. Oh, and BTW, concerning a traceability matrix, generally it doesn't really exist except for proprietary software. Linux design is not "requirements-based" as commercial software is, it's "I-want-this-feature-bad- -enough-to-code-it-and-get-it-included-based". I suspect that companies like IBM internally have requirements-based systems to organize their employees into various tasks, but publicly there is no such system, aside from "It's broken and I fixed it with this patch:". Cheers, Kyle Moffett -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS/IT/U d- s++: a18 C++++>$ UB/L/X/*++++(+)>$ P+++(++++)>$ L++++(+++) E W++(+) N+++(++) o? K? w--- O? M++ V? PS+() PE+(-) Y+ PGP+++ t+(+++) 5 X R? tv-(--) b++++(++) DI+ D+ G e->++++$ h!*()>++$ r !y?(-) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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