Learning Linux Kernel

[Victor Rodriguez]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:37:56AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the world
>> who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which mentions
>> about it?
>
> The Linux Foundation has a report every year about this detailing this
> type of information.  Also, lwn.net reports on this every kernel
> release, see those articles for details.
>
> Oh, and as a teaser, for the past year of releases, 2.6.36 - 3.1.0
> (October 2010 to October 2011) there was 2889 different developers who
> got patches accepted into the Linux kernel codebase.
>
> greg k-h
>
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Hi Kaushal

Goof to hear you want to be part of Linux Kernel, here is a good
article of How to participate on the Linux Community

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/how-participate-linux-community-0

Learn GIT (maybe you already know it )

http://git-scm.com/

Clone the mainstream Kernel by it self

http://kernel.org/

Check the code you will see that must of the code is in C

Now after you feel confident on C (recommended book = C Programming
Language Kernighan) you can start to run the latest Kernel on your
Linux machine, subscribe to an specific Mailing list of development
you want to follow, apply the RFC patches and check if it works ,
suggest new ideas or even work on the solution for existing bugs in
bugzila. Have fun :)

Check on the article for this good advice

Andrew Morton gives this advice for aspiring kernel developers

The #1 project for all kernel beginners should surely be "make sure
that the kernel runs perfectly at all times on all machines which you
can lay your hands on". Usually the way to do this is to work with
others on getting things fixed up (this can require persistence!) but
that's fine--it's a part of kernel development.

Hope it helps

Victor Rodriguez