• Table of Contents • Index • Reviews • Examples • Reader Reviews • Errata • Academic	Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition By Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Alessandro Rubini Publisher : O'Reilly Pub Date : February 2005 ISBN : 0-596-00590-3 Pages : 636

		Preface
			Jon's Introduction
			Alessandro's Introduction
			Greg's Introduction
			Audience for This Book
			Organization of the Material
			Background Information
			Online Version and License
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Using Code Examples
			We'd Like to Hear from You
			Safari Enabled
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1. An Introduction to Device Drivers
			Section 1.1. The Role of the Device Driver
			Section 1.2. Splitting the Kernel
			Section 1.3. Classes of Devices and Modules
			Section 1.4. Security Issues
			Section 1.5. Version Numbering
			Section 1.6. License Terms
			Section 1.7. Joining the Kernel Development Community
			Section 1.8. Overview of the Book
		Chapter 2. Building and Running Modules
			Section 2.1. Setting Up Your Test System
			Section 2.2. The Hello World Module
			Section 2.3. Kernel Modules Versus Applications
			Section 2.4. Compiling and Loading
			Section 2.5. The Kernel Symbol Table
			Section 2.6. Preliminaries
			Section 2.7. Initialization and Shutdown
			Section 2.8. Module Parameters
			Section 2.9. Doing It in User Space
			Section 2.10. Quick Reference
		Chapter 3. Char Drivers
			Section 3.1. The Design of scull
			Section 3.2. Major and Minor Numbers
			Section 3.3. Some Important Data Structures
			Section 3.4. Char Device Registration
			Section 3.5. open and release
			Section 3.6. scull's Memory Usage
			Section 3.7. read and write
			Section 3.8. Playing with the New Devices
			Section 3.9. Quick Reference
		Chapter 4. Debugging Techniques
			Section 4.1. Debugging Support in the Kernel
			Section 4.2. Debugging by Printing
			Section 4.3. Debugging by Querying
			Section 4.4. Debugging by Watching
			Section 4.5. Debugging System Faults
			Section 4.6. Debuggers and Related Tools
		Chapter 5. Concurrency and Race Conditions
			Section 5.1. Pitfalls in scull
			Section 5.2. Concurrency and Its Management
			Section 5.3. Semaphores and Mutexes
			Section 5.4. Completions
			Section 5.5. Spinlocks
			Section 5.6. Locking Traps
			Section 5.7. Alternatives to Locking
			Section 5.8. Quick Reference
		Chapter 6. Advanced Char Driver Operations
			Section 6.1. ioctl
			Section 6.2. Blocking I/O
			Section 6.3. poll and select
			Section 6.4. Asynchronous Notification
			Section 6.5. Seeking a Device
			Section 6.6. Access Control on a Device File
			Section 6.7. Quick Reference
		Chapter 7. Time, Delays, and Deferred Work
			Section 7.1. Measuring Time Lapses
			Section 7.2. Knowing the Current Time
			Section 7.3. Delaying Execution
			Section 7.4. Kernel Timers
			Section 7.5. Tasklets
			Section 7.6. Workqueues
			Section 7.7. Quick Reference
		Chapter 8. Allocating Memory
			Section 8.1. The Real Story of kmalloc
			Section 8.2. Lookaside Caches
			Section 8.3. get_free_page and Friends
			Section 8.4. vmalloc and Friends
			Section 8.5. Per-CPU Variables
			Section 8.6. Obtaining Large Buffers
			Section 8.7. Quick Reference
		Chapter 9. Communicating with Hardware
			Section 9.1. I/O Ports and I/O Memory
			Section 9.2. Using I/O Ports
			Section 9.3. An I/O Port Example
			Section 9.4. Using I/O Memory
			Section 9.5. Quick Reference
		Chapter 10. Interrupt Handling
			Section 10.1. Preparing the Parallel Port
			Section 10.2. Installing an Interrupt Handler
			Section 10.3. Implementing a Handler
			Section 10.4. Top and Bottom Halves
			Section 10.5. Interrupt Sharing
			Section 10.6. Interrupt-Driven I/O
			Section 10.7. Quick Reference
		Chapter 11. Data Types in the Kernel
			Section 11.1. Use of Standard C Types
			Section 11.2. Assigning an Explicit Size to Data Items
			Section 11.3. Interface-Specific Types
			Section 11.4. Other Portability Issues
			Section 11.5. Linked Lists
			Section 11.6. Quick Reference
		Chapter 12. PCI Drivers
			Section 12.1. The PCI Interface
			Section 12.2. A Look Back: ISA
			Section 12.3. PC/104 and PC/104+
			Section 12.4. Other PC Buses
			Section 12.5. SBus
			Section 12.6. NuBus
			Section 12.7. External Buses
			Section 12.8. Quick Reference
		Chapter 13. USB Drivers
			Section 13.1. USB Device Basics
			Section 13.2. USB and Sysfs
			Section 13.3. USB Urbs
			Section 13.4. Writing a USB Driver
			Section 13.5. USB Transfers Without Urbs
			Section 13.6. Quick Reference
		Chapter 14. The Linux Device Model
			Section 14.1. Kobjects, Ksets, and Subsystems
			Section 14.2. Low-Level Sysfs Operations
			Section 14.3. Hotplug Event Generation
			Section 14.4. Buses, Devices, and Drivers
			Section 14.5. Classes
			Section 14.6. Putting It All Together
			Section 14.7. Hotplug
			Section 14.8. Dealing with Firmware
			Section 14.9. Quick Reference
		Chapter 15. Memory Mapping and DMA
			Section 15.1. Memory Management in Linux
			Section 15.2. The mmap Device Operation
			Section 15.3. Performing Direct I/O
			Section 15.4. Direct Memory Access
			Section 15.5. Quick Reference
		Chapter 16. Block Drivers
			Section 16.1. Registration
			Section 16.2. The Block Device Operations
			Section 16.3. Request Processing
			Section 16.4. Some Other Details
			Section 16.5. Quick Reference
		Chapter 17. Network Drivers
			Section 17.1. How snull Is Designed
			Section 17.2. Connecting to the Kernel
			Section 17.3. The net_device Structure in Detail
			Section 17.4. Opening and Closing
			Section 17.5. Packet Transmission
			Section 17.6. Packet Reception
			Section 17.7. The Interrupt Handler
			Section 17.8. Receive Interrupt Mitigation
			Section 17.9. Changes in Link State
			Section 17.10. The Socket Buffers
			Section 17.11. MAC Address Resolution
			Section 17.12. Custom ioctl Commands
			Section 17.13. Statistical Information
			Section 17.14. Multicast
			Section 17.15. A Few Other Details
			Section 17.16. Quick Reference
		Chapter 18. TTY Drivers
			Section 18.1. A Small TTY Driver
			Section 18.2. tty_driver Function Pointers
			Section 18.3. TTY Line Settings
			Section 18.4. ioctls
			Section 18.5. proc and sysfs Handling of TTY Devices
			Section 18.6. The tty_driver Structure in Detail
			Section 18.7. The tty_operations Structure in Detail
			Section 18.8. The tty_struct Structure in Detail
			Section 18.9. Quick Reference
		Chapter 19. Bibliography
			Section 19.1. Books
			Section 19.2. Web Sites
		Index