On 4/22/11, Manuel Mejia <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That makes sense. So gar, I feel comfortable with C, but need to get a > better feel for system calls and the like. There are a couple books on the linux kernel. Linux Device Drivers is good and a free download. Robert Love's book is good. lwn.net has good information. > > Would you happen to have a link to get more info on staging drivers? http://linuxdriverproject.org/foswiki/bin/view Look through the mailing list archive to see what people are working on. > Ultimately, my goal is to contribute towards hardware drivers and display (x > server) once I gain enough knowledge. Currentfy going to school for computer > engineering Maybe you have other suggestions based on that? I've been > looking around for a while, googling, but there isn't a whole lot on how to > get started (info looks outdated usually) or points to kernel newbies. > In the end the mailing lists are the only up to date sources of information. If you downloaded linux-next and used Smatch to check the code from 3 weeks ago and the code from today and then used the new_bugs.sh script to show the difference the two runs, you would probably find quite a few valid bugs. I haven't been checking Smatch output for a while. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
