Re: Beware - kernel Newbie!

[Jeff Garzik]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Pedro Diaz Jimenez wrote:
> This is an typical mail from an experienced user-land programmer who wants to 
> help in kernel development ;D. 
> 
> I've been lurking for a while in this list and I'm wondering if this is the 
> right list for asking stupid newbie questions. Is it?. If not, do you know 
> one?. Where I can find documentation?

We are always welcome to answer newbie -kernel hacking- questions...
just ask specific ones.  For example, ask "how does struct netdevice's
last_rx member get used?", not "what do I need to do to write a network
driver?"....

The documentation is in linux/Documentation/*

> (yeah, yeah, read the code. But
> things are always better with an 'vi   Doc.txt' in the processes tree :)

Really.  The code is the best documentation.  Hone your code reading
skills.  Use the source, Luke.

	Jeff