From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: okaratas@yandex.com (Ozgur) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:02:17 +0300 Subject: Updating LDD3 In-Reply-To: <20171024105803.GA14014@liam-mint> References: <20171024105803.GA14014@liam-mint> Message-ID: <315651508842937@web15j.yandex.ru> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hello Ryan, 24.10.2017, 13:58, "Liam Ryan" : > I'm currently working through the Linux Device Drivers 3rd edition > (https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/) and much of the code is outdated. > > Right now I'm going through chapter 3 and rewriting the scull.c sample > code so that it will compile with 4.14.x > > I'm wondering about the Creative Commons license on the LDD3 book. I believe I would be able to annotate or alter the pdf files and re-publish them once I respect the license, however I'm wondering if this would be considered bad form? I assume there's a reason somebody else has not done this to date? I think you can update and re-publish the example code and don't break the original comment lines. At least I think this. > Obviously as a kernel newbie I'm not best positioned to do this work but > I'm happy to make a start and publish to a wiki or similar in a few > months once I've gone through everything. > > Thanks, > Liam Regards Ozgur