is anyone else reading this book "linux device drivers" on there way to (trying) to become a kernel hacker? what kind of stuff are you doing to "practice" what you learn? i usually find myself getting lost in various directories like /usr/src/linux/kernel or /usr/src/linux/fs, but i really dont write much kernel code. mostly i just make sure i 100% understand all the example book code, but im already on the 7th chapter and have yet to do a real "project". when i was reading stevens books i always had more ideas of progs to write than time to write them.. but now it's just kinda reading and reading. wondering if anyone else is or was in a similar position? the only ideas i really have of stuff to do is going thru various kernel code and commenting the hell out of it, just making sure i understand how it works, that's about all i've accomplished other than just reading.. so what is the rest of you guys are doing??

hey infamous41md - i kinda reached the 2nd chapter. and stopped.
i know for certain that the guy who started work on the prismGT wireless card driver used this as a starting point.
maybe you can take up some new/less-heard-of piece of hardware that no ones written a driver for yet, and start a project?

Check out www.kernelnewbies.org

yea i've been by kernelnewbies more than a few times, it is a cool site so thanks anyways. i've never checked out the IRC channel tho, maybe i'll swing by there sometime.

h/w: you should keep going ... those first 2 chapters were painful, damn painful, i must of read them a dozen times, but after taht it gets alot easier. once it all "clicks" it's really interesting. i would like to write a real driver, but the problem is the book doesnt even touch on real hardware until chapter 9 i think. so far all the "devices" just act on memory.

I thought that was a pretty good book. I have to say I didn't read it cover to cover. But the first time I wrote a device driver I read several sections of it as I went along to figure out how to do things. It has made a good reference since then when I forget the syntax of a function. These days I find myself haven't right device drivers a lot less often though, because so much is supported already.