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Linux Kernel Development

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Priyank Kapadia
Priyank Kapadia

The document provides an overview of device driver development in Linux, including character device drivers. It discusses topics such as device driver types, kernel subsystems, compiling and loading kernel modules, the __init and __exit macros, character device registration, and issues around reference counting when removing modules. It also provides sample code for a basic character device driver that prints information to the kernel log.

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Hemen Kapadia 27 th January, 2007 Linux Kernel Development – Character Device Drivers Basics
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