Updating LDD3

Ozgur okaratas at yandex.com
Tue Oct 24 07:02:17 EDT 2017


Hello Ryan,

24.10.2017, 13:58, "Liam Ryan" <liamryandev at gmail.com>:
> I'm currently working through the Linux Device Drivers 3rd edition
> (https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/) and much of the code is outdated.
>
> Right now I'm going through chapter 3 and rewriting the scull.c sample
> code so that it will compile with 4.14.x
>
> I'm wondering about the Creative Commons license on the LDD3 book. I believe I would be able to annotate or alter the pdf files and re-publish them once I respect the license, however I'm wondering if this would be considered bad form? I assume there's a reason somebody else has not done this to date?

I think you can update and re-publish the example code and don't break the original comment lines. 
At least I think this.

> Obviously as a kernel newbie I'm not best positioned to do this work but
> I'm happy to make a start and publish to a wiki or similar in a few
> months once I've gone through everything.
>
> Thanks,
> Liam

Regards

Ozgur



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