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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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Rodolfo Giometti Rodolfo Giometti
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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

Using a device tree to describe a character driver

We have seen that by using a device tree, we can specify different driver settings and then modify the driver's functionalities. However, our possibilities do not finish here! In fact, we can use the same code for different driver's releases or a different types of the same device.

How to manage different device types

Let's suppose our chrdev has two other implementations (plus the current one) in which the hardware is done in such a way that most parameters are fixed (and well known) and not selectable by the developer; in this case, we can still use node properties to specify them, but doing this is error prone and it forces the user to know these constraints...

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