[LCP]Kernel Ques

[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:07:52PM -0700, Manu Anand wrote:
> Your question guy is back with more questions dealing
> with "Linux Internals".I was looking at
> include/linux/fs.h and
> Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt.A lot of structures
> appear to be changed like file_operations,
> inode_operations etc. The question is that are the 2
> versions designed to be different or they just became
> different in course of Linux Development.

The kernel documentation is always lagging behind the implementation.
In this case I think it is because Al Viro restructured large parts of
the VFS somewhere around linux-2.3.30. Also expect large VFS cleanups
early in linux-2.5.

> I would also like suggestiong on mailing lists
> pertaining to kernel development,preferably a newbies
> only list.

Use the kernelnewbies mailing list, see http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ .
There is also the #kernelnewbies IRC channel on the Open Project IRC
network (see http://www.openprojects.net/ for a server near you).


Erik
[erikm on #kernelnewbies]

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