8. For more information

There are numerous sources of information on Linux kernel development and related topics. First among those will always be the Documentation directory found in the kernel source distribution. The top-level process/howto.rst file is an important starting point; process/submitting-patches.rst and process/submitting-drivers.rst are also something which all kernel developers should read. Many internal kernel APIs are documented using the kerneldoc mechanism; “make htmldocs” or “make pdfdocs” can be used to generate those documents in HTML or PDF format (though the version of TeX shipped by some distributions runs into internal limits and fails to process the documents properly).

Various web sites discuss kernel development at all levels of detail. Your author would like to humbly suggest https://lwn.net/ as a source; information on many specific kernel topics can be found via the LWN kernel index at:

https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/

Beyond that, a valuable resource for kernel developers is:

https://kernelnewbies.org/

And, of course, one should not forget https://kernel.org/, the definitive location for kernel release information.

There are a number of books on kernel development:

Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition (Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini,