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

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

On Fri 09 Mar 01, 11:34 AM, John Levon said: 
> 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 found it to be horribly outdated; it is based on 2.2.x and I am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 ?

hi john,

originally i contacted the author over correcting a couple of minor points
and spelling mistakes.  i knew something was amiss when it took 15 minutes
of web searching to get his email address.  :)

finally got in touch with him, and he said that he didn't have time to keep
the guide updated.  it seemed like a shame because it was obviously a good
guide; it was just outdated and needed some TLC.

ori asked me if i wanted to maintain the guide.  i figured at the VERY
LEAST, if someone found a spelling error, at least i'd be around to fix it.
at best, maybe i could use it to learn from by updating it and expanding on
some of his discussions.

so i said yes.  :)

he has signed over the copyright to me (well, it's on its way via snail
mail), and that's where i am.   :)

as soon as i declare chapter 3 (which was his chapter 2 -- i added a
'preliminaries' chapter) done, i'm taking a 2-4 week break to make sure my
thesis advisor doesn't totally hate me.

i'm thinking of combining his chapters 3+4.  aside from source code, his
chap 3 doesn't say very much.  i'm using smaller fonts and removing 2.0
support in an effort to get code to span as few pages as possible (i think
having code span pages reduces its clarity).

pete
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