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| author | Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com> | 2011-01-06 08:15:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com> | 2011-01-08 01:08:28 +0100 |
| commit | e62e2ee0d7e8d61d95696fb65e14a7ca03cd37d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a93892fb5ab82a0bb4cf4cac4e9197d8884b2ac | |
| parent | 26e967f1a1dc04f6e234f617c5ce5e895c431bc2 (diff) | |
| download | ldd3-e62e2ee0d7e8d61d95696fb65e14a7ca03cd37d1.tar.gz | |
README: Update project documentationv2.6.32
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@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@ -ldd3: Linux Device Drivers 3 examples updated to work in recent kernels +ldd3: Linux Device Drivers 3 examples updated to work with recent kernels About ----- -This project aims to keep an up to date version of the original -Linux Device Drivers 3 (http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/) source code. +Linux Device Drivers 3 (http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/) book is now a few years +old and most of the example drivers do not compile in recent kernels. +Also, many new changes were introduced in the kernel since version 2.6.10. +Examples for many ABIs are not covered in the book, like netlink sockets, +threaded interrupt handlers, debugfs, etc. + +This project aims to keep LDD3 example drivers up-to-date with recent kernels. The original code can be found at: http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596005900/ -Besides these examples, there is a plan to add more example drivers to show -API/ABI not cover in LDD3, for example netlink and threaded interrupt handlers. +Besides the original drivers, there is a plan to add more examples that cover +more recent kernel features like the listed before. Bugs, comments or patches: martinez.javier@gmail.com |