Tools to help edit / navigate / hack the Kernel source: = Downloading = * If you want to download the lastest kernel source, you need git. You can get it from [http://git.or.cz/index.html here]. * There is a very good tutorial for kernel hackers on git [http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html here] = Navigation Aid = * [http://lxr.linux.no/ Cross-Referencing Linux] : Nice website to browse the kernel source, search for identifiers, and diff between kernel versions. Uses [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxr/ lxr] as its backend. * [http://www.kernelhq.org/ KernelHQ] : Another website to browse/navigate the kernel source. Has all the kernel sources since 1.0. = Navigation Utilities = * [http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ ctags] * [http://cscope.sourceforge.net/ cscope]. Tutorials: [http://cscope.sourceforge.net/large_projects.html Using with large projects], [http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html Using Cscope with Vim]. = Version Control = Navigate the changesets applied to: * [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git;a=summary linux-2.4] * [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=summary linux-2.6]