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Writing Portable Device Drivers

May 01, 2002  By Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Follow the kernel team's rules to make your drivers work on all architectures.
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re: interact wit pci using linux

sup's picture
Submitted by sup (not verified) on Wed, 11/22/2006 - 00:15.

hi,
i work on linux ver 2.2, i would like to interact with the pci bus and pci devices what apis and structures should i use and in which header file should i include for its proper functioning.

thanks and regards,

sup

Why all the kernel drivers

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Submitted by Don (not verified) on Mon, 09/11/2006 - 11:59.

This is a fine article on kernel drivers, but why write all these things as kernel drivers? The I2C interface (and the USB interface) both provide for access to devices from user-space. For many devices, this is all that is needed. Yes for file systems and network, etc. a kernel driver is needed, but why clutter up the kernel for every gadget that comes along?

It's a must read document

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Submitted by Bhupesh (not verified) on Tue, 01/17/2006 - 02:20.

It's a must read document for beginners :)

Re: Writing Portable Device Drivers

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/08/2004 - 02:00.

It's really a helpful article !

Re: Writing Portable Device Drivers

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/04/2003 - 03:00.

Its a good artical for newbies entering into driver deveopment.
The artical is very cear and understanding.

subash

Re: Writing Portable Device Drivers

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/15/2003 - 02:00.

this is a good article specific to writing efficient and portable Linux device driver. It has cleared some of my confusion as well as raised a few.

I appreciate it.

nikhil bhargava

Hi,i wrote a device driver

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Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/29/2006 - 06:36.

Hi,

i wrote a device driver for USB for FC6. after writing the code and compiling it, how could i make it start when the usb is plugged in? should i also use insmod and rmmod?

thanks

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