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From:   Henry Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:24:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel
 Module Programming Guide
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 7:17 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Recently, the content and examples of the book "The Linux Kernel Module
> > Programming Guide" are being actively maintained and added on Github[1].
> > Currently, the book is being regularly built into webpage and pdf
> > file using Github static page[2].
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg
> > [2]: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst | 14 ++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> > index 22d9ace5df2a..631a3dc04e3e 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> > @@ -126,15 +126,17 @@ On-line docs
> >          describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
> >          Card Services.
> >
> > -    * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
> > +    * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
> >
> > -      :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
> > -      :URL: https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
> > -      :Date: 2001
> > +      :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
> > +      Jim Huang.
> > +      :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
> > +      :Date: 2021
> >        :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
> >          interrupt handlers .
> > -      :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
> > -        programming. Lots of examples.
> > +      :Description: A very nice 93 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
> > +        programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
> > +        actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
>
> If this book is now being consistently maintained, then the number of
> pages is sure to change in short order; it seems like kind of a strange
> thing to track here...?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon


Sorry about it.

v3 has been pushed, dropping the term "93 pages".

Thank you for the feedback!

Henry