knewbies project? - updating LDD3 source

[naren.mehra at gmail.com]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Leon Woestenberg
<leon.woestenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:14 PM, DG <dangets at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day
>>> > <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> 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.
>>> >>>
>
> Why not take this a little bit higher and rewrite the LDD3 book
> sections that need updating, not (only) the source code examples.
>

This sounds like an excellent idea.
Can a project like that could be started in sourceforge ??
Can somebody take the ownership for the same ??
I am sure a lot of us would like to contribute.

-- Naren

> This can be taken on piecewise.
>
> I would see this identical to kernel/Documentation/* except that the
> pieces are targetting device driver developers.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Leon
>