Linux kernel compilation

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Modulo typos and English errors, this is how a piece of software should look. Readable for the programmer.

Besides Knuth literate programming I've seen only one piece of software that looked as readable: the disassembly of Sinclair Spectrum ROM. Virtually every CPU instruction had a comment with it.

Looks bad to me. I would prefer a prose design overview and code separate.

Comments like this always go out of date because people don't reread every comment when they make a change.

666 lines, is this the definitive guide?

No this would be the definitive guide: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/

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