On Tue, 24 May 2011, Jim Cromie wrote: > over at http://code.google.com/p/ldd3/ > it says: > The famous "Linux Device Drivers" released the sample code. but the > code does not reflect the latest kernel updates, some of code cannot > even compile. This project is to make it compatible with the current > kernel. > > http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ > http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596005900/ the one caution i would give here is that quite a bit of code in LDD3 shouldn't be updated, anyway, since it reflects features that have been deprecated for quite some time. for instance, no one should be writing proc files anymore. also, ioctl()s are also discouraged for the most part. so i would be selective about what parts of LDD3 code *should* be updated as examples of good kernel programming. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
