Re: character device driver for I/O-card.

[John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> On Wed 07 Mar 01,  6:12 PM, Stephan Henningsen said: 
> > 
> > At this point, I am not focusing on the realtime-part yet; I
> > have been reading some of ``Linux Module Programmers Guide'' and
> > found it to be horribly outdated; it is based on 2.2.x and I am
> > using 2.4.0.
> 
> actually, it's based on 2.0 with some support for 2.2.
> 
> i've spent the past 5 days teaching myself module programming to the
> exclusion of my dissertation and job (oops!).  but as i've been learning,
> i've been adding to the MPG and updating it for 2.4 (after all, it's a GPL
> document).
> 
> anyway, i'm done with chapters 0-2.   chapter 3 is nearly completed; i just
> need to finish up a section on module versioning. 
> 
> i've been adding to it as my way of learning.  didn't really intend on
> giving it to anyone, but i'm starting to really like it.   if you or anyone
> else here wants to take a look at chapters 0-3, email me and i'll send you a
> postscript file.
> 
> mind you, i AM a newbie, albeit a fast learning one.  and i wasn't doing it
> to release to other people.  but a couple of my friends said that it was a
> really good improvement of the document.  any comments on it would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> pete

THis is fantastic news. I'm sure the IRC channel and this list will be happy to
help you out in this; the MPG has sadly fallen behind.

Have you contacted the LDP about this ? Or the original author ?

thanks
john

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