Re: Linux Device Drivers

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:38:43 -0700 (PDT)


Hello Chris , Please see quoted email after the .sig , Hth, JimL

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> I just got a copy of O'Reilly's Linux Device Drivers and I've hit the
> little problem that the examples it comes with are written for a 2.0.x
> kernel and won't compile on 2.2.x.
>
> Does anyone know if there are updated versions of these examples
> available, or even an update to the main text detailing the
> differences?
>
> I had a quick look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation, but there didn't
> seem to be much coverage of the specific internals that have changed
> for drivers.
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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:33:41 -0700
> From: "Dunlap, Randy" <randy.dunlap@intel.com>
> To: 'Tony Preston' <apreston@k2nesoft.com>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: RE: Question: Porting a Driver to 2.2
>
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> At http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/
> there is info on porting 2.0 -> 2.2
> and on 2.2 -> 2.3.
>
> ~Randy

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