Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 25.08.2013 05:50, guojzzz a écrit :
> 在 2013年8月25日星期日UTC+8上午11时20分01秒，Zenaan Harkness写道：
> > On Aug 24, 2013 7:40 PM, "guojzzz" <rush.guo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Recently I have a interest in Linux Kernel, but I don't think my C
> >
> > > programming skill is able to handle it, I'm just going to read the 
> > code in
> >
> > > Github.
> >
> > > So any of you have ever involved in the dev of Linux Kernel? I've 
> > been
> >
> > > kernelnewbies.org, it's a great website.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) I think kernelnewbies has some suggestions. Been a while since I 
> > looked.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2) I recommend learning git to clone the kernel repo so you have a
> >
> > local copy. That should be more enjoyable experience.
> >
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> Ah ha, why a local repo makes better experience, usually I'd like to
> read code on Github.

Replying to that question is easy:

1) You can not make any change on github.
2) Github is JS-bloated, and therefore not as fast as your desktop's 
environment.
3) You can not debug stuff on github.

And probably a lot more reasons. But, in short, you can not learn how 
to hack a program without playing with it's source. Reading is good, but 
almost useless against practice.