In this excerpt, Chapter 9, from the book, the author describes how kernel device drivers interact with system hardware and how developers can write device drivers and use them in their applications.

[Johannes 4GNU_Linux] has been filming a video series on how to write Linux device drivers for a couple of years now, but luckily, you won’t need that long to watch them or to create your own… ...

Since the adoption of Kernel 2.6, Linux has used the udev system to handle devices such as USB connected peripherals. If you want to change the behavior when you plug something into a USB port, thi… ...

I've recently become interested in a Windows driver called HttpDisk which allows mounting of disk images over HTTP. The closest thing I could find for Linux was NBD (Network Block Device). Is ...

Open source project chief hits out at 'social media brigading' Weighing in on yet another Linux kernel spat - this time over Rust device drivers - Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has shot the ...