[svlug] New to Kernel programming and device drivers

[Peter van der Linden]

O'Reilly has a good book on Linux device drivers, called ... "Linux Device Drivers"
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Device-Drivers-Jonathan-Corbet/dp/0596005903

It's in its third edition, and you can get a used copy at Amazon for $20.  It covers up to ver 2.4 of the kernel interfaces.

You'll also want to get really solid C knowledge.  There's an amount of bit twiddling and cycle bumming in driver code.  You can master a lot of this by reading code and taking the time to figure it out.  I would recommend the Diomidis Spinellis book "Code Reading" for that.
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Reading-Open-Source-Perspective/dp/0201799405

Apart from anything else, it's a very enjoyable read.  Diomidis is a past winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Competition.  His entry is an absolutely breathtaking BASIC interpreter in ~20 lines of C!   You can see it here:  http://cis.csuohio.edu/~somos/ddsbasic.c

Cheers,

    Peter




On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Tharanga Abeyseela wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Iam a fan of linux and opensource systems. i have done
> some perl,php programming on linux but havent done much of  C
> programming stuff .
> 
> I like to get your expert advice on writing linux device drivers.
> Acatually i have a fair knowledge in C .(iam familiar with OS
> concepts)  can some one tell me where should i start and which areas
> of programming i should improve in C and good books for a newbie.
> 
> Thank you very much for reading my first post here :)
> 
> Tharanga
> 
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