Subtle interactions in the embedded world - what bugs can teach us

Neil Brown writes: "One of the freedoms that free and open source software provides is the freedom to study the source code. However having that freedom doesn't mean it's easy to use it. When faced with a large body of code such as the Linux kernel it can be hard to know where to start, or when to move on. There is no story-line, no curriculum, no plot to guide your study. This is where a bug comes in: it can provide a story line." Click below (subscribers only) for the full story line from this week's Kernel Page.

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