Linux Kernel Development

Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshriyan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 05:16:01 EDT 2012


On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu at rosedu.org> wrote:
> On 9 September 2012 06:15, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am interested to contribute to linux kernel development process. I
>> have been working on Linux for the last ten years and have been a
>> great fan of Linux OS since beginning. Any good references to start
>> learning C and understand the linux kernel source code.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kaushal
>
> Hello!
>
> You could start by looking through the site of this community [0].
> They have some pointers.
>
> You should take a look at this video [1] first. It's a brief intro on
> how the Linux Kernel community works.
>
> But first, you should be familiar with C programming (it's good if you
> did some system programming in C). If you have the basic C experience
> and if you want to go onto kernel programming (not that hard) you
> should try reading some books (I would recommend these [2] [3]).
>
> After that, use the source! And if you get stuck, ask around (here,
> for example).
>
> Good luck and happy hacking!
>
> [0] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHacking
> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
> [2] http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-3rd-Edition/dp/0672329468
> [3] http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Linux-Kernel-Third-Edition/dp/0596005652/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_z
>
> --
> Alexandru Juncu
>
> ROSEdu
> http://rosedu.org

Hi,

I am totally new to C Programming Language. How do i start learning C
and which books or tutorials i need to refer.

Regards,

Kaushal



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