My effort to learn Linux kernel development

[Amit Kumar]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 4:12 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Amit Kumar wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 8:26 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> 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 lot of documentation that is at least a little out of date and could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