On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/10/2011 05:26 AM, Prajosh Premdas wrote: >> >> [...] >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:08 AM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15@xxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:rohan.puri15@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:40 PM, suraj khurana >> <surajkhurana27@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:surajkhurana27@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I am a newbie in linux world and want to learn linux device >> drivers. >> >> I am currently reading book - "Linux Device Drivers" by O'reilly. >> >> Does anyone has any problem statements based on device drivers >> for practice >> so that I can enhance my skills in writing device drivers. > > The Linux Device Driver book (ldd3) is outdated, as Linux kernel ABI changes > constantly, although I would still recommend the book as good starting > point. > Martinez Javier started to port the source code examples to the actual > Kernel versions. I'm not sure about the actual status of the work, but I > vaguely remember that I tried to use the block device driver some month ago. > It compiled without any warning but crashed when used. > > Maybe you want to dig in the example code and see if you can find and > resolve some issues. > > https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3 > > Regards, > Matthias Hello Suraj, As the author of that repo I confirme you that I'm not updating the examples anymore. Looking at the commit history you can see that the last one was about a year ago. An even there I only make sure that the drivers compile cleanly but I didn't try it as Matthias says. A long time ago I update the drivers for academic purposes but since then I have ever used anymore. Hope that someone can continue this forking my git tree since I think the LDD3 books is one of the best for newbies to understand how Linux drivers are developed. BTW: I do have time to push patches is someone send to me to fix the issues. Best regards, -- Javier Martínez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 Barcelona, Spain _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
