Are these books outdated?

[François]

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.

> Could you tell me please, are these books considered worth reading in
> year 2016 or they are completely out of date? Perhaps there are some
> newer books and/or tutorials you could recommend?

That's an interesting question, I'm willing to know the opinion of 
other members of kernelnewbies on those books, and others they would recommand.

-- 
François