On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I see many people in the list asking where do I start? In my opinion > the best way to learn kernel development is first learning some basic > concepts and start coding to get your hands dirty. > > The Linux Device Drivers 3 book is a good start. Both the book and > source code examples are freely available. > > The problem is that the book is a few years old and the example > drivers do not compile in recent kernels. > > I started a project to keep the LDD3 examples up-to-date with recent > kernels. > > The git tree can be cloned from git://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3.git > > I will try to keep the code always in sync with linux-next but there > will be tags to stable versions. Now there are tags that compile with > kernel versions 2.6.32, 2.6.35 and 2.6.37. > > I didn't try all the drivers with the three kernel versions, just > compile tested. So any bug, comment or patch is always welcome > Thanks Javier, This was much needed. Regards anuz
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