On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:56:18 -0800 Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:10:51PM +0100, Luca wrote:
> > Greg KH <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> > > Intro
> > > -----
> > [...]
> > > Though they
> > > are not a good substitute for a solid C education and/or years of
> > > experience, the following books are good, if anything for reference:
> > >
> > > "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie [Prentice Hall]
> > > "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline [O'Reilly]
> > > "Programming the 80386" by Crawford and Gelsinger [Sybek]
> > > "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures" by Curt Schimmel [Addison Wesley]
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> > you may want to add:
> >
> > "Linux Kernel Development, 2nd ed." by Robert Love [Novell Press]
> > and
> > "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd ed." by J. Corbet, A. Rubini and G. Kroah-Hartman [O'Reilly]
> >
> > IMHO the first one is a must-have for beginners who want to have an
> > overall picture of the kernel and LDD is very helpful when you start doing
> > some real work :)
>
> Those books are good, but this section is just for where to get the
> basics of C and Unix. The file Documentation/kernel-docs.txt should
> have a pointer to these two books, and this HOWTO does point to that
> file.
and as I told Greg a few days ago, there are lots of bad URLs (links)
in that file (and in Documentation/ in general), so feel free to send
corrections for them. I have some corrections, but not yet in patch
format.
---
~Randy
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