Re: What was your first kernel hack?

[Muthukumar Ratty <muthu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> it's all too complex for me to even make a simple but useful
> kernel module or driver yet.

Get the Linux Device Driver (by Alessandro Rubini et al. ) its a nice
introduction to driver programming (kernel pgm in general). And try to
write your own.... or read the driver/*.[ch] files to see real driver
implementations.

Muthu.




>
> Now I was thinking about what you all did to get your hands
> dirty. It would be nice if you shared a bit of where you
> begun with kernel-coding and what you did. It doesn't
> necessarily have to be code that was accepted into the
> kernel, but just regular newbie-stuff that got you started.
>
> Happy new year everyone.
>
>



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