Linux Device Drivers (3rd) - Study Notes

Chapter 9/10 "Short"

# hardware interrupts and installed handlers.
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/stat

Methold 1:
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# install modules
insmod short.ko
lsmod | grep short

# create device node
# <250> is the major NO. which output from the 1st command
cat /proc/devices | grep short
mknod /dev/short0 c 250 0
mknod /dev/short1 c 250 1
ls /dev/ | grep short

# verify
echo  -n "any string"  > /dev/short0


Methold 2:
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# install/remove modules by using scripts
./short_load
./short_unload

Linux space & context

In fact, in Linux, we can generalize that each processor is doing one of three things at any given moment:

• In kernel-space, in process context, executing on behalf of a specific process

• In kernel-space, in interrupt context, not associated with a process, handling an interrupt

• In user-space, executing user code in a process

device driver

The software that handles or manages a hardware controller is known as a device driver.