Resources for “Things You Should Never Do in the Kernel”

March 31st, 2005 by Greg Kroah-Hartman in

Resources for the print article.

Kernelnewbies.org: a good Web site, mailing list and IRC channel dedicated to helping new Linux kernel programmers learn the various basic issues.

Driving Me Nuts “Device Classes”, /article/6872: Instead of reading a file, have your kernel module create a sysfs entry to communicate with user space. This article contains an example based on the 2.6.x i2c code.

Modules from This Article: ftp.ssc.com/pub/lj/listings/issue133/8110.tgz

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