On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 There is a repo on GitHub with the same purpose. I haven't checked it out personally, but it's probably worth a look. https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
