From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 18:24:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: How to fast master kernel In-Reply-To: <52618.1462917526@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <8026.1462892451@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <52618.1462917526@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, 10 May 2016, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2016 16:58:26 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > > not sure who it was (maybe even valdis) who once said, "Saying you > > want to get into kernel programming but have no idea where to start so > > can someone give you suggestions is like saying you want to write a > > book but don't know what to write about so can someone give you any > > ideas." > > Yeah, that was me... > > I'm also the one who said that we're approaching the point where the > number of people who are actually qualified to do serious hacking on > the kernel innards (like the scheduler, vfs, etc, not just a driver) > is on the same order of magnitude as the number of people qualified > to be Formula-1 race car mechanics.... all those F-1 race cars run linux, anyway, so ... no big deal. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================