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Linux Device Driver Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Device Driver Development Cookbook Learn kernel programming and build custom drivers for your embedded Linux applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838558802
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing the Development System FREE CHAPTER 2. A Peek Inside the Kernel 3. Working with Char Drivers 4. Using the Device Tree 5. Managing Interrupts and Concurrency 6. Miscellaneous Kernel Internals 7. Advanced Char Driver Operations 8. Additional Information: Working with Char Drivers 9. Additional Information: Using the Device Tree 10. Additional Information: Managing Interrupts and Concurrency 11. Additional Information: Miscellaneous Kernel Internals 12. Additional Information: Advanced Char Driver Operations 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exchanging data with a char driver

In this recipe we'll see how to read and write data to and from a driver according to read() and write() system calls behaviors.

Getting ready

To modify our first char driver in order to allow it to exchange data between user space we can still work on the module used in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

In order to exchange data with our new driver, we need to modify the read() and write() methods according to what we said earlier, and we have to add a data buffer where exchanged data can be stored:

  1. So, let's modify our...
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