On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 4:12 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Amit Kumar wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 8:26 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Jules Irenge wrote: > > > > > > > I normally learn the kernel on weekends. Reading R. Love and > > > > practicing by coding what you learn is the best way. Also, trying to > > > > submit simple patches on some free time is a good way , meeting Greg > > > > Kroah and Shuan, they are fantastic people to learn from. > > Is there any online method to interact with Mr. Greg Kroah Hartman? > > > > > > as the tech editor of the r. love kernel book, i can safely say that > > > there are no really current kernel books out there anymore -- the best > > > docs are the in-kernel ones. > > I started reading documents from the Documentation folder. > > > > > > also, if you want to get started mucking with the kernel and > > > submitting patches, consider improving the documentation -- there is a > > > lot of documentation that is at least a little out of date and could > > > use all the help it can get, and that's an easy and safe way to get > > > started getting your name into the kernel git log. > > > > > I know well that there is not any book that provides current knowledge > > about the Linux kernel. > > So, I have decided to make my blog (https://freeark1blog.blogspot.com) > > a gateway to the Linux kernel development. > > > > Why were the last kernel book by Mr. Greg Kroah Hartman and et. al. canceled? > > there's not much financial incentive to write kernel books anymore; > the code base changes so relentlessly that any book is pretty much out > of date by the time it hits the shelves, and few authors want to > invest months of their life for that. and what's the point of having a > small number of authors working on a book, when the entire linux > community is co-operating to improve the inline docs, anyway? > > rday > > p.s. it also occurs that the kernel is so vast that there's no way > you could do justice to it in a single book. there might (i emphasize > *might*) be some value in writing a comprehensive book on some single > kernel subsystem, but even that would be obviated by decent inline > docs. OK. Time will tell how much I remain successful in helping out developers to learn kernel development. I highly respect your feeling about this situation. Regards, Amit Kumar _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
