This is not your typical dry academic textbook. It’s a hands-on, step-by-step guide aimed at hackers, tinkerers, and developers who want to demystify kernel programming.

Programming languages: Now Rust project looks for a way into the Linux kernel The Rust programming language gets a nod of approval from Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

The OP is talking about mucking about in the kernel. Even if that book did talk about kernel programming, Stevens has been dead for 15-20 years so the book would be horribly out of date.