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@@ -6,38 +6,22 @@ About 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 the original drivers, there is a plan to add more examples that cover -more recent kernel features like the listed before. - Compiling ---------- -The example drivers should compile and work with popular kernel versions. -Right now version 2.6.32, 2.6.35 and linux-next are supported. - -The tree has three branches: -* v2.6.32 -* v2.6.35 -* master - -These branches will compile and work with the trees: -* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/longterm/linux-2.6.32.y.git -* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/longterm/linux-2.6.35.y.git +The example drivers should compile against latest Linus Torvalds kernel tree: * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git -To compile the drivers against a specific tree (for example linux-next): +To compile the drivers against a specific tree (for example Linus tree): $ git clone git://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3.git -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git -$ export KERNELDIR=/path/to/linux-net +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git +$ export KERNELDIR=/path/to/linux $ cd ldd3 $ make |