On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Sarah Sharp wrote:
>
> > Any plans to include this content in kernelnewbies.org?  It seems
> > like tutorials on kernel programming should be linked from there.
>
>   at the risk of putting a few noses out of joint, a main reason why
> i'm not keen on adding more content to kernelnewbies is that what's
> there is, in many cases, spectacularly out of date, and newer content
> would just get lost in the shuffle.
>
>   consider the links here:
>
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Documents
>
> follow some of those links and see where you end up.  i mean,
> seriously, "working with the kernel source in CVS"??  and a number of
> other links there have very little remaining value.
>
>   rather than trying to add more content, a higher priority would be
> to *cleanse* that documentation page of what obviously has little
> value, and start over.  thoughts?
>
> That is pretty much state of most documentation about kernel. Most of text
on drivers is not updated to the point that some of it wont even compile
and links are broken. There is a lot of development and very little updated
documentation.

> rday
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