Are these books outdated?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Jul 14 08:26:14 EDT 2016


On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, François wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:01:55PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>
> Hello Aleksander,
>
> I only know LDD 3:
> > * Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition (2005)
>
> Since this book is freely available in PDF, I would advise you to
> read it. It is out-dated (in sense you won't compile snippets as is)
> but it is well written, and pleasant to read.
>
> The version 4 was scheduled for dec 2015 iirc, but is now annonced
> for nov 2017 on O'Reilly's website.

  i wouldn't count on that publication date. according to sources,
nothing has been finalized.

rday

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