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Linux Device Drivers by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Linux Device Drivers about?

Honestly, I really don't understand how anyone can give this book 5 stars. To start off on a positive tone, I'll say what I liked about it. 1) Lots of information. There is no denying this, it is very informitive. However, this is a double edged swords (will discuss later) 2) The basic drivers are described pretty well. The scull driver is a good way to ease into driver development, imo. Simple enough that it's not too overwhelming and ununderstandable, but not overly simple so that you actually get an idea of what's going on. 3) It's free. That's it for the positives. Now for a huge list of negatives. 1) Most of the information is irrelevent. I feel like the authors lost focus as the book went on, and forgot they were not writing a general "Linux Kernel" book but a specific book for drivers. Many a time do they spend pages upon pages going on about something, only to mention "but this is never used by read driver developers" at the end. You end up in a really unpleasant situation where you have to sift through a bunch of useless info to get to the useful stuff. Most of the time I ended up just searching google, and got better results. 2) Lack of more complex examples. Let's face i

Who reads Linux Device Drivers?

Author

Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini

Publisher

O'Reilly & Associates

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780596000080

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Operating Systems, Stem

Rating

4.1 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14