How to figure out the Linux kernel's source code?

Question

There are some books about Linux developing, internals, managers and so on. but I'm thinking about a documentation that Linux developers write when the commit a patch on the kernel. Does something like that exist? I know there is a mailing list for kernel newbies and some stuff like this but I'm not a newbie and I don't want to be kernel hacker. I just want to know If I want to read a part of the source code that is too new what will help me? I want a good explanation.

Answer 1

There is 'Documentation' folder in the kernel source tree. That's probably it! Linux kernel is developing by Agile metodology, so as it usually happens documentation does not meets the code.

I was taught that the best source of information is kernel source code, and I fully agree with this now.

Also there is really good web-site lwn.net, that offen publishes articles with explanations of new kernel features/API/etc.