hi all, a new version of the linux kernel module programming guide (lkmpg) was submitted to tldp and is now available. the original author was no longer maintaining it (back in the 2.0 days) and had lost interest / had no time. i offered to take it over to do three things: 1. update it for 2.4 as time permits (which is not much right now) 2. to, at the VERY LEAST, fold other peoples' corrections and comments into the document, which wasn't being done. even if the maintainer doesn't know much about the subject, at least the document would be updated by other people. that's a step up from stagnation. 3. to convert the latex into docbook, since tldp is no longer accepting latex submissions. that was a nightmare of a job, and i hope to never have to do anything like that ever again. it was hell. i did what i could for the first few chapters, but right now i'm... finishing a dissertation on semi-classical gravity getting married writing a dead-tree book on debugging code using GDB for no starch press graduating with a phd in physics moving (literally) cross country. for the USA, that's LONG distance. :) trying to find a high paying job with a minimal amount of work, 5000 miles away. not easy. all in the space of a few months. i definitely won't be able to do more with the lkmpg until at least september, after i find a real job. however, people can contribute. * if you send diffs against the docbook, i'll apply them. * if you send explicit instructions / writing, i'll implement them in docbook (for those of you who want to contribute but don't know docbook) as long as there's no guess work involved. i can commit time, just not a lot of it right now. * if you have suggestions / comments, i promise i'll try to get around to it sooner or later. * feature requests will be saved until i get settled in with a job. ;) link: http://tldp.org/guides.html#lkmpg not perfect, i know. hopefully with some help, we can at least make it palatable. pete -- Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
