Hi Suraj You can also download the softcopy of all the examples in LDD book. You can also refer 2 other books Venkateswaran_-_Essential_Linux_Device_Drivers_(Prentice,_2008) and Professional Linux ® Kernel Architecture by Wolfgang Mauerer. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:08 AM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:40 PM, suraj khurana <surajkhurana27@gmail.com>wrote:

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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.

Thanks, Suraj

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Hello Suraj, I would suggest complete reading the book with the examples given in the book.

Regards, Rohan Puri

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 11/10/2011 05:26 AM, Prajosh Premdas wrote:

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[...] On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:08 AM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com <mailto:rohan.puri15@gmail.com>> wrote:    On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:40 PM, suraj khurana    <surajkhurana27@gmail.com <mailto:surajkhurana27@gmail.com>> 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The Linux Device Driver book (ldd3) is outdated, as Linux kernel ABI changes constantly, although I would still recommend the book as good starting point.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