Hi, I've been using Linux for several years now and I'm interested in learning how the kernel works and being able to contribute to its development. However, I'm quite confused as to how to get going with this. I've bought two books on the subject - "Understanding the Linux kernel" and "Linux Kernel Development", but I guess the problem is that I can't really follow the source code while I'm reading - there aren't enough pointers in the books to the relevant code and it's quite difficult to navigate the tree, since it's so big. Another thing is that I'm not sure which area of the kernel I'd like to contribute to. This is because I don't yet know how it works, so I can't make any (informed) decision. This is perhaps not much of a problem, I think, since once I learn how things work, I will hopefully be able to contribute (learning more as I do so) to an area that needs it. Assuming that I know nothing (except some C), what advice would you give me if I wanted to successfully join the kernel development community? Thanks and kind regards, Nicky Chorley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
