From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: naren.mehra@gmail.com (naren.mehra at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:12:48 +0530 Subject: knewbies project? - updating LDD3 source In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > Hello all, > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: >> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> >>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:14 PM, DG wrote: >>> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day >>> > wrote: >>> >> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Jim Cromie wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> over at http://code.google.com/p/ldd3/ >>> >>> it says: >>> >>> The famous "Linux Device Drivers" released the sample code. but the >>> >>> code does not reflect the latest kernel updates, some of code cannot >>> >>> even compile. This project is to make it compatible with the current >>> >>> kernel. >>> >>> > > Why not take this a little bit higher and rewrite the LDD3 book > sections that need updating, not (only) the source code examples. > This sounds like an excellent idea. Can a project like that could be started in sourceforge ?? Can somebody take the ownership for the same ?? I am sure a lot of us would like to contribute. -- Naren > This can be taken on piecewise. > > I would see this identical to kernel/Documentation/* except that the > pieces are targetting device driver developers. > > Regards, > -- > Leon >