Ttile
The Unix filesystem
Two kind of device files
Standard device file names
The common programming model
Two simple examples
Major and minor numbers (1)
Major and minor numbers (2)
Device file's contents
The devfs naming scheme
The Virtual File System (1)
The Virtual File System (2)
Device driver (1)
Device driver (2)
Device registration (1)
Device registration (2)
Example of device registration
Device initialization (1)
Device initialization (2)
I/O monitoring
Polling mode (1)
Polling mode (2)
Interrupt mode (1)
Interrupt mode (2)
Time-outs
Software timers
Deferrable functions (1)
Deferrable functions (2)
Block device drivers
Character device drivers
Planning the next lectures
Author: D. P. Bovet, M. Cesati
E-mail: lkh@bravo.ce.uniroma2.it
Homepage: http://bravo.ce.uniroma2.it/kernelhacking2003/
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