Updating LDD3

Daniel. danielhilst at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 07:50:42 EDT 2017


There is a repo at github with all the samples don't?

On Oct 24, 2017 9:06 AM, "Ozgur" <okaratas at yandex.com> wrote:

> 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 (https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/) and much of the code is outdated.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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