As a programmer, you are able to make your own choices about your driver, and choose an acceptable trade-off between the programming time required and the flexibility of the result. Though it may appear strange to say that a driver is flexible, we like this word because it emphasizes that the role of a device driver is providing mechanism, not policy.
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08
Linux Device Drivers
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Linux This book does not cover the Linux kernel in its entirety, of course, but Linux device driver authors need to know how to work with many of the kernel’s subsystems.
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