Hello,
 
Also would like to know if one needs to work on a Hardware toolkit as well for 
LDD
 
Thanks for sharing the useful article link

www.quora.com/Linux/Whats-the-best-way-to-learn-device-driver-development-on-Linux

Regards
Ashok
 

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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Linux System Calls vs writing device drivers
To: "Ashok Sharma" <[email protected]>
Cc: "kernelnewbies" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, 16 October, 2011, 17:46


On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Ashok Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:







Hello,
 
I am interested in writing Linux device drivers (DD) and have knowledge of OS 
concepts, Linux OS design and System Calls. What is the path to writing DD and 
please give some references/links.   
 
Thank you and regards
Ashok
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Hello Ashok,

A few days ago I wrote a lengthy answer to the same question in quora, if you 
want to take a look: 
www.quora.com/Linux/Whats-the-best-way-to-learn-device-driver-development-on-Linux

Short answer: 

If you have an Android device, there is a big probability that the drivers for 
that hardware have not yet been pushed upstream. Android and Linux differ 
slightly but enough to force a developer to choose to write a driver either for 
Android or Linux.

So, a useful contribution and an excellent learning process could be porting 
Android device drivers to Linux.

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