Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition

This is the web site for the Third Edition of, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman. For the moment, only the finished PDF files are available; we do intend to make an HTML version and the DocBook source available as well.

This book is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. That means that you are free to download and redistribute it. The development of the book was made possible, however, by those who purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere.

LDD3 is current as of the 2.6.10 kernel. See the LWN 2.6 API changes page for information on subsequent changes.



LDD3 chapter files

Title page PDF Copyright and credits PDF Table of Contents PDF Preface PDF Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers PDF Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules PDF Chapter 3: Char Drivers PDF Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques PDF Chapter 5: Concurrency and Race Conditions PDF Chapter 6: Advanced Char Driver Operations PDF Chapter 7: Time, Delays, and Deferred Work PDF Chapter 8: Allocating Memory PDF Chapter 9: Communicating with Hardware PDF Chapter 10: Interrupt Handling PDF Chapter 11: Data Types in the Kernel PDF Chapter 12: PCI Drivers PDF Chapter 13: USB Drivers PDF Chapter 14: The Linux Device Model PDF Chapter 15: Memory Mapping and DMA PDF Chapter 16: Block Drivers PDF Chapter 17: Network Drivers PDF Chapter 18: TTY Drivers PDF Index PDF

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