From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john.chludzinski@vivaldi.net (John Chludzinski) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:21:57 -0400 Subject: Are these books outdated? In-Reply-To: <20160810181754.GA8718@kroah.com> References: <20160714140155.62523307@fujitsu> <156b7e5e8149927ea9f25e2c12d46aac@mail.vivaldi.net> <20160810181754.GA8718@kroah.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org The 2.6 kernel made significant changes to threading support in the kernel. In 2.6 there's now a 1-to-1 mapping from kthreads to pthreads. On 2016-08-10 14:17, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:16:13PM +0530, Raul Piper wrote: >> Most of the books like Essential linux device drivers, Robert love >> kernel >> development, >> Linux device drivers by Rubini >> Most of the books are based on old kernels 2.2,2.6 etc >> >> I wanted to know?hasnt the kernel evolved during these times and is it >> still >> good to design drivers based on?that theory.Since device trees and >> possibly >> many other concepts would have?evolved and??obviously the apis related >> to them >> like _of_ apis for device tree parsing. >> Please comment- which book to be read or followed? > > The ideas should still be the same, but the details have changed. > > If you don't like that, then just refer to the best documentation there > is, the source itself. The kernel comes with TONS of built-in > documentation (make pdfdocs) and all of the source code which shows > exactly how things work together. > > And it's free! > > best of luck, > > greg k-h