Re: Kernel interfaces
M.Brands (shrike@il.fontys.nl)
Mon, 10 May 1999 11:34:01 +0200
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 12:12:20PM +0200, Juan Piernas Cánovas allegedly wrote:
> Hi all!.
>
> I think that it's very difficult to be a kernel hackers :-)
> but it's much more difficult if I haven't got good
> documentation. Specially, I need info about the Linux kernel
> interfaces (memory, character/block devices, buffer cache,
> etc.). Yes, I know, there are "The Linux Kernel" guide,
> "The Linux Kernel Hacker's Guide" and "The Linux Kernel
> Module Programming Guide", but they all are not enough.
>
> And Linux kernel sources are becoming so large that is too
> hard reading a lot of files to begin.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Well, O'Reilly has a book on writing Linux devicedrivers, but I haven't seen
or used it. In fact, I've never written a single line of kernelcode, so I'm
probably not that qualified to answer your question :)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive/
Mathijs
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