On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 02:22:35PM +0530, Ajith Adapa wrote: > Yeah you are right David. But .. > > For a newbie who just know more about linux userspace level need to > know starting steps like where to start from and flow of packet might > be confusing because of the level of abstraction being used. I guess > it might take some time until you are really serious about making > hands dirty :) For working with or just reading kernel sources I recommend getting to know the cscope tool. Do a "make cscope" and then use one of the front end browsers. If you use emacs, then you really should have this set ; When working on the kernel (setq cscope-do-not-update-database t) otherwise it tries to re-index after every search. HTH, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html