Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:11:23 +0100 | From | Daniel Drake <> | Subject | Re: Developing Kernel Code newbie |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > If you are a _programming_ beginner, you're setting your sights a too high > and will probably get frustrated.
I'm not a beginner to programming, been doing it since an early age. That said, I have very little experience of "pro" programming - I am still in full time education. Still, it is definately a high target, and will take some time getting used to.
I wrote my first patch yesterday, very very basic but its a start! (just simply makes the usblp driver output its debug info into dmesg when CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is set).
Alan Cox wrote: > The kernel is cool, but it is a large piece of code with a lot of ideas > in it that some folks find challenging (interrupts, multiprocessing, > threads and locking) [One thing to be said at least the Java taught > university folks understand some of this unlike those they used to feed > pascal] > > Have fun but if you find the kernel daunting and hard work, don't give > up but pick up something smaller, easier to understand and use a > debugger on - like desktop applications, then come back and try the > kernel again later.
I think thats where I'm heading, thanks for the advice.
Amir: Here are a few URL's I have stored for this topic. I have yet to study them in detail.
http://jungla.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html http://www.kernelnewbies.org http://en.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
Thanks.
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