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| Book: | Linux Device Drivers | |
| Subject: | Disappointing but no alternative | |
| Date: | 2006-08-02 07:08:05 | |
| From: | Anonymous Reader | |
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Rating:
 
This book has negative and positive sides: Negative: the 3rd editions contains many wrong references to non-existing paragraphs etc. Very annoying if you want to follow the discussions. Many code snippets are unnecessary complicated which makes the general line of thought sometimes difficult to follow. For people with low knowledge of the kernel this will be a stopper. All listings are incomplete, but the online examples are no help either: it's an unordered set of files, sometimes not working or at least too little explanatory text. There are not many alternative texts on this subject with all these details, so the book is a must-have for anybody who starts to write kernel modules. A very good outline of kernel characteristics wrt writing modules etc. Read it without a bottom-up approach in mind - you will need a lot more information, but this can be easily found on internet. It was nice to see that many of the 2.4 kernel issues have been refreshed for 2.6. |
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