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Old 03-11-2013, 06:52 AM   #1
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character device driver

hi,
i am new to device driver programming and i understood basic things about character driver programming like, creating a simple driver, inserting it and removing it but nw i want to dig further, so expecting some guidance in same field..

Thank You.
 
Old 03-11-2013, 11:40 AM   #2
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Install the kernel source packages and go out there and look at every single one of them.
 
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Old 03-12-2013, 04:42 AM   #3
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One the best books available for device drivers
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

read through it and run all the examples given and understand them. That should take you a long way.
 
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