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Rust Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Rust Programming Cookbook Explore the latest features of Rust 2018 for building fast and secure apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530667
Length 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Claus Matzinger Claus Matzinger
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting Off with Rust 2. Going Further with Advanced Rust FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Projects with Cargo 4. Fearless Concurrency 5. Handling Errors and Other Results 6. Expressing Yourself with Macros 7. Integrating Rust with Other Languages 8. Safe Programming for the Web 9. Systems Programming Made Easy 10. Getting Practical with Rust 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating I2C device drivers

Communicating with devices in Linux happens at different levels. The most basic layer of drivers is the kernel module. Among other things, these modules have unrestricted access to the operating system and, if necessary, provide access to users via interfaces such as block devices. This is where the I2C (https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/i2c/all) driver offers the as /dev/i2c-1 bus (for example) that you can write to and read from. Using Rust, we can use this interface to create a driver for a sensor device that is connected to that bus. Let's see how that works.

How to do it...

Device drivers can be implemented in a few steps:

  1. Create a binary project: cargo new i2cdevice-drivers
  2. Open the...
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