Developing a Kernel Device Driver

A device driver ties an input/output hardware device to the computer's operating system. All drivers are created as add-ons that are loaded by a running application. This chapter discusses drivers that are loaded by the kernel.

The drivers that the kernel loads must play by these rules:






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