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Linux Kernel Infrastructure for User-Level Device Drivers (2004)

by Peter Chubb Peterc
In Linux Conference,Adelaide,Australia
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Abstract:

Linux 2.5.x has good support now for user-mode device drivers --- XFree being the biggest and most obvious --- but also there is support for user-mode input devices and for devices that hang off the parallel port. The motivations for user-mode device drivers are many: .

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