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Old 11-30-2008, 01:59 PM   #1
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Cool How to write device driver program using Python in linux

Hi friends i am novice in python.. But i want to write a device driver programming using python..like (Nokia 5310 music express mobile driver, USB driver etc..[any one]). Can you help me? Any suggestions are welcome... Hope for fruit full reply.
 
Old 11-30-2008, 02:58 PM   #2
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Hi, welcome to LQ!

Now, I'm not an expert in device driver programming, but
I don't think you can write a driver in Python. There's
no python interpreter available for kernel level stuff,
you'll need to learn C or assembly for that.



Cheers,
Tink


P.S.: Given the topic I'm moving this to our programming
forum, it's better off there.
 
Old 11-30-2008, 07:47 PM   #3
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Do you have a book on device drivers?--eg "Linux Device Drivers" by Greg Kroah-Hartmann

Do you have the interface specs for the devices you mention?
 
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You can write a userspace piece in python, but anything that you have to hook into the kernel has to be C or assembler.
 
  


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