From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754223Ab2DPOlx (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:41:53 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:51792 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753457Ab2DPOlv (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:41:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:41:58 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jonathan Corbet , David Miller , operational.people@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Where I can find the guide/help to device driver development Message-ID: <20120416144158.GB5215@x1.osrc.amd.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Steven Rostedt , Jonathan Corbet , David Miller , operational.people@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20120415.003704.657782177790226484.davem@davemloft.net> <20120415121413.111a7461@lwn.net> <20120415192950.GB11036@home.goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120415192950.GB11036@home.goodmis.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:29:51PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:37:04 -0400 (EDT) > > David Miller wrote: > > > > > From: Vishal Nandanwar > > > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:59:02 +0530 > > > > > > > I am new in Linux device driver development. Currently I am learning > > > > drivers from the book "Linux device drivers" by Rubini. This book is > > > > quite big and quite boring. What are the ways to learn the drivers? > > > > > > > > Do any one have any guide in video or PPT format or in any other format? > > > > > > Sorry, nobody is going to produce and direct a science fiction film > > > about kernel development just to make it more interesting for you. > > > > I don't know...this could actually be kind of fun... > > > > Jon, I blame you for not putting in a QotW this week. The OP is an > obvious troll, fishing for new material to give you. This is his second > post: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/13/66 > > I guess old Vishal was upset (like many others) about not seeing any > good quotes on LWN, and decided to go trolling for some. Asking this > question (more than once) is a sure way to secure a good juice QotW on > LWN for next week. > > Moral of the story is... Don't whimp out on posting QotWs on LWN, > otherwise you get trolls fishing for material, and you happen to be the > one that supplies it (sortof defeating the point). Oh, I'm very happy Jon did that - I'm ROTFLing here :-) Jon, good job, can we get the next three movies now too ... :-) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.