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Linux Device Drivers Development

Linux Device Drivers Development

By : John Madieu
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Linux Device Drivers Development

Linux Device Drivers Development

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By: John Madieu

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Linux kernel is a complex, portable, modular and widely used piece of software, running on around 80% of servers and embedded systems in more than half of devices throughout the World. Device drivers play a critical role in how well a Linux system performs. As Linux has turned out to be one of the most popular operating systems used, the interest in developing proprietary device drivers is also increasing steadily. This book will initially help you understand the basics of drivers as well as prepare for the long journey through the Linux Kernel. This book then covers drivers development based on various Linux subsystems such as memory management, PWM, RTC, IIO, IRQ management, and so on. The book also offers a practical approach on direct memory access and network device drivers. By the end of this book, you will be comfortable with the concept of device driver development and will be in a position to write any device driver from scratch using the latest kernel version (v4.13 at the time of writing this book).
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Introduction to Kernel Development

Module parameters

As a user program does, a kernel module can accept arguments from the command line. This allows dynamically changing the behavior of the module according to given parameters, and can help the developer not having to indefinitely change/compile the module during a test/debug session. In order to set this up, you should first declare the variables that will hold the values of command line arguments, and use the module_param() macro on each of these. The macro is defined in include/linux/moduleparam.h (this should be included in the code too: #include <linux/moduleparam.h>), shown as follows:

module_param(name, type, perm); 

This macro contains the following elements:

  • name: The name of the variable used as the parameter
  • type: The parameter's type (bool, charp, byte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong), where charp stands for char pointer
  • perm: This...
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