Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition

Updated to cover version 2.4.x of the Linux kernel, the second edition of Linux Device Drivers remains the best general-purpose, paper-bound guide for programmers wishing to make hardware devices work under the world's most popular open-source operating system. The authors take care to show how to write drivers that are portable--that is, that compile and run under all popular Linux platforms. That, along with the fact that they're careful to explain and illustrate concepts, makes this book very well suited to any programmer familiar with C but not with the hardware-software interface. It's worth noting that the emphasis in the title is on "device drivers" as much as "Linux." This book will make sense to you if you've never written a driver for any platform before. It helps if you have some Linux or Unix background, but even that is secondary as a prerequisite to C skill.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers
Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules
Chapter 3: Char Drivers
Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques
Chapter 5: Enhanced Char Driver Operations
Chapter 6: Flow of Time
Chapter 7: Getting Hold of Memory
Chapter 8: Hardware Management
Chapter 9: Interrupt Handling
Chapter 10: Judicious Use of Data Types
Chapter 11: kmod and Advanced Modularization
Chapter 12: Loading Block Drivers
Chapter 13: mmap and DMA
Chapter 14: Network Drivers
Chapter 15: Overview of Peripheral Buses
Chapter 16: Physical Layout of the Kernel Source
Bibliography
Index