On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:47:02PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > Hi Greg, Tayseer.... > > > It's evolutionary design, not formal design. And it works. Really > > well. I'm sure you can agree. > > Maybe this is what people call "Extreme Programming"? ;) No, "Extreme Programming" is quite different from what we do on the kernel. I don't see anyone here sharing my keyboard with me :) > BTW, something like graphviz, lxr, doxygen, ctags/cscope are really > helpful to understand Linux kernel internal. Codes speak for > themselves, yes I moderately agree, but without proper formal > documentation and/or UML/DFD/whatever....newcomer will find it hard to > understand how Linux kernel. OTOH, I also realize that OS development > is a complex stuff. It can be compared to the complexity of game > development (in user space) IMHO. I agree, learning about the kernel is vastly different from the people who are currently working on it. The learning curve is quite steep these days from what it used to be... > Last, books ( i mean good books) are always needed. Greg, I owe you one > for writing LDD3 together with Mr Corbet and Mr Rubini. Any plan for > LDD4? ;) Not right now, sorry. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
