Learning Linux Kernel
Hi I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache etc... Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase sometimes down the line. Please guide/suggest me. Regards, Kaushal
From: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Kaushal Shriyan Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 3:40 PM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Learning Linux Kernel Hi I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache etc... Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase sometimes down the line. Please guide/suggest me. Regards, Kaushal If you don't know C, you'll probably will want to start with a C tutorial. You can skip learning assembly languages for now, there is very little of it in the kernel sources and it varies a lot from processor to processor, but you'll need to understand C very well in order to really understand the kernel. Jeff Haran
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache etc...
Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase sometimes down the line. Please guide/suggest me.
Regards,
Hello! I think people appreciate your enthusiasm. I do think that knowing C programming is a prerequisite. So you need to start with that. For the theory, if you want to start learning how the kernel works, I recommend the book Linux Kernel Development [1] by Robert Love. Another thing I would give you is this video [2] to know how to submit your first patch. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@rosedu.org>wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache etc...
Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase sometimes down the line. Please guide/suggest me.
Regards,
Hello!
I think people appreciate your enthusiasm. I do think that knowing C programming is a prerequisite. So you need to start with that. For the theory, if you want to start learning how the kernel works, I recommend the book Linux Kernel Development [1] by Robert Love. Another thing I would give you is this video [2] to know how to submit your first patch.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
Hi 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? Regards Kaushal
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@rosedu.org> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I have been working on Linux OS for the last 10 years and it has been very exiting and challenging to learn new technologies based on Linux. I am basically a Sys Admin for Linux with bash programming and configuring and setting up Linux Server including network services like BIND DNS,Apache etc...
Although i do not know C and ASM Language, I am very much eager to start learning Linux Kernel Code and contribute to linux kernel codebase sometimes down the line. Please guide/suggest me.
Regards,
Hello!
I think people appreciate your enthusiasm. I do think that knowing C programming is a prerequisite. So you need to start with that. For the theory, if you want to start learning how the kernel works, I recommend the book Linux Kernel Development [1] by Robert Love. Another thing I would give you is this video [2] to know how to submit your first patch.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
Hi
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?
Regards
These are a statistics page, not sure how accurate it is though: http://www.remword.com/kps_result/ I think that the best place to look at this are the annual reports of the Linux foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/lf_linux_kernel_development... Best regards, -- Javier Martínez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 Barcelona, Spain
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
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Greg KH <greg@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
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25@gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Greg KH <greg@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 )
Clone the mainstream Kernel by it self
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
Hi Victor, Thanks a lot for the encouragement. I am obliged and got motivated. You said "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 bugzilla" Development of Kernel Mailing list -> http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-1 is this correct ? Not sure about RFC Patches and existing bugs in bugzilla. Please point me to the relevant web page. Regards Kaushal,
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:04:06PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25@gmail.com>wrote:
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 :)
Development of Kernel Mailing list -> http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-1 is this correct ?
There are different mailing lists for the different subsystems/parts of the kernel. The MAINTAINERS file and scripts/get_maintainer.pl in the source code list them.
Not sure about RFC Patches and existing bugs in bugzilla. Please point me to the relevant web page.
RFC in this case means "request for comments"; these are just patches that are not finalized/applied to the subsystem maintainers' git trees yet. Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/) is currently not available. HTH, Jonathan Neuschäfer
On Tuesday 13 December 2011 05:37 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Alexandru Juncu<alex.juncu@rosedu.org>wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
Hi
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?
Also you might want to check this video uploaded on Youtube. Nice explanation on how exactly the Kernel Developers' community works, along with the statistics (old ones, though). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw
Regards
Kaushal
-- Thanks, Nilesh
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