Re: Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition

[Andre Hedrick]

Jon,

A map is a published reference how to move around.  So yes it does give a
right to use knowledge from the information expressed.  If there was not a
reference a manual to kernel programming, then the source is the sole
manual.  Now given the volital nature of the moving API, regardless of
reason, any judge would likely veiw that active movement as an attempt to
thwart the successful production of a "3rd Party" manual.

This does not even include all the published referneces of changes deemed
as publish manuals in all the mailing list archieves.

On a side note, why doesn't LWN bother to investigate cases of known and
provable GPL violations.

I wish you well on the sales of the book, and I will by a copy this time
to catch up on what I have forgotten.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> > So this is the third release to publish the documented API to the writing
> > kernel level device drivers?
> 
> I guess I see it as more of a map of the jungle as I (and my co-authors)
> see it.  A guide to New York does not automatically open all of the doors
> of the city to you; should a guide to certain parts of the kernel be
> different?  
> 
> There was an informative article in Phrack a while back on how to install
> code into a running kernel via /dev/kmem.  I guess that must be a
> documented API too, now.
> 
> jon
> 

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