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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> | 2011-01-06 08:15:53 +0100 |
| commit | aa2ff876a387ac18ced8bb239a2831364383de19 (patch) | |
| tree | f2da8ec77569bfb7d3ec2fc33301534532b16f3b /README | |
| parent | 092ebcedddd4e13243db4caa28106aaa2168239e (diff) | |
| download | ldd3-aa2ff876a387ac18ced8bb239a2831364383de19.tar.gz | |
README: Update project documentation
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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 |