On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:13:13PM -0500, Jaret Flores wrote: > 1) It seems like most of the material (outside of the kernel itself) > corresponds to version 2.6. Why is this? Has nothing "significant" > changed with the core structure of the kernel since then? Or is it > just that no one has decided to write a book about a newer version? Lots of things change with each kernel version, but keeping a book up-to-date with them all is very difficult in the publishing industry of today. Get the basic concepts from a book, and then look at the code for the exact details of what is going on. As you have access to all of the code, this isn't that much of a problem as it sounds. > 2) In some header files I see comments that look like: > > /** > * struct some_struct - description > * @property1: description > * ... > * @propertyn: description > */ > > This style looks very similar to http://usejsdoc.org/ which is used to > build html documentation from code comments. Does the kernel use a > tool like this? i.e. is there html documentation generated from the > code comments? Yes, this format is called 'kerneldoc' and you can use it to create a ton of documentation from the kernel source tree. Look at the help instructions for make: make help in the "Documentation targets:" section for more details on how to create this documentation from the source tree. greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
