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Examine and build kernel documentation

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Examine and build kernel documentation

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- [Instructor] Of course, we all like to do web searches to find the answers to our question, to find out information about things. But I'm going to urge you to do more than that to use information in your kernel source tree. So first of all, the kernel source code is changing quickly. Thousands of lines per day are changing on average. It's amazing how active the Linux kernel project is. So that means anything you find on the web might be out of date. Although of course a lot of it's still relevant. The source code for the kernel you're running in some sense is the official documentation, right? It will tell you exactly how that kernel works. And that's one of the real benefits of open source. You have the source code to go look at to figure out how something really works. Also, I find really valuable the documentation files that come in the source tree. So not only looking at the source code, which of course can be really hard to figure out, there's a lot of documentation. Some of…

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