Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:56:18 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] HOWTO do Linux kernel development |
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:10:51PM +0100, Luca wrote: > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> ha scritto: > > Intro > > ----- > [...] > > Though they > > are not a good substitute for a solid C education and/or years of > > experience, the following books are good, if anything for reference: > > > > "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie [Prentice Hall] > > "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline [O'Reilly] > > "Programming the 80386" by Crawford and Gelsinger [Sybek] > > "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures" by Curt Schimmel [Addison Wesley] > > Hi Greg, > you may want to add: > > "Linux Kernel Development, 2nd ed." by Robert Love [Novell Press] > and > "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd ed." by J. Corbet, A. Rubini and G. Kroah-Hartman [O'Reilly] > > IMHO the first one is a must-have for beginners who want to have an > overall picture of the kernel and LDD is very helpful when you start doing > some real work :)
Those books are good, but this section is just for where to get the basics of C and Unix. The file Documentation/kernel-docs.txt should have a pointer to these two books, and this HOWTO does point to that file.
thanks,
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