From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Are these books outdated? In-Reply-To: <20160714115032.hasb4lzetrcrgb55@sith> References: <20160714140155.62523307@fujitsu> <20160714115032.hasb4lzetrcrgb55@sith> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Fran?ois wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:01:55PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > > Hello Aleksander, > > I only know LDD 3: > > * Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition (2005) > > Since this book is freely available in PDF, I would advise you to > read it. It is out-dated (in sense you won't compile snippets as is) > but it is well written, and pleasant to read. > > The version 4 was scheduled for dec 2015 iirc, but is now annonced > for nov 2017 on O'Reilly's website. i wouldn't count on that publication date. according to sources, nothing has been finalized. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================