Reviews for Linux Device Drivers

1. Very good books for begin develop linux device drivers

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2009

   This book is very useful for people thath wants learn about linux device drivers. The approach followed by the authors is practical oriented and involve the reader.
   The descriptions of kernel data structure and subsystem (such as pci and usb) is very clear.
   

2. Lack of real examples

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2008

   Hi,
   it is thorough in details about drivers, but lacks of examples. There is not any example in the book for a complete driver.

3. Saved my bacon more than once...

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2007

   This book is an excellent guide to device driver writing under Linux. Stuck with an unsupported printer? Then there's no reason to delay buying this book and rolling your own driver...

4. Still an essential text

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2006

   This remains the best all-round introduction to kernel programming where most of us start - writing device drivers.

   The third edition has been update to include information on writing VFS/file system drivers: an important update.

   The text does remain rather too ia32 centric though.

5. The book listed at the top is not the 2nd edition.

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2001

   Like many people I have been waiting for the second addition to arrive and if you look on O'Reillys web site, you will see it is out now and that the first edition ( which is the one listed here ) is out of print.

   The 'Book Description' is about the 2nd edition, but the book, contents and price listed at the head of the page are for the first edition.

   ... Make sure you order the second edition...