Pdfdocs !!
Hmm that would be a nice Idea to collate all the Documentation of the
kernel  into the pdfs and make a book out of it for any kernel version
we want !
Thanks !


On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:51 PM, John Chludzinski
[off-list ref] wrote:

The 2.6 kernel made significant changes to threading support in the kernel.
In 2.6 there's now a 1-to-1 mapping from kthreads to pthreads.



On 2016-08-10 14:17, Greg KH wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:16:13PM +0530, Raul Piper wrote:

quoted

Most of the books like Essential linux device drivers, Robert love kernel
development,
Linux device drivers by Rubini
Most of the books are based on old kernels 2.2,2.6 etc

I wanted to know hasnt the kernel evolved during these times and is it
still
good to design drivers based on that theory.Since device trees and
possibly
many other concepts would have evolved and  obviously the apis related to
them
like _of_ apis for device tree parsing.
Please comment- which book to be read or followed?

The ideas should still be the same, but the details have changed.

If you don't like that, then just refer to the best documentation there
is, the source itself.  The kernel comes with TONS of built-in
documentation (make pdfdocs) and all of the source code which shows
exactly how things work together.

And it's free!

best of luck,

greg k-h