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