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Device driver overview

Driver development

This topic reviews some basic steps and guidelines to keep in mind when planning and developing device drivers. For a complete list of guidelines, see ``Guidelines for all kernel drivers''.

Device driver development requires more up-front planning than most application programming projects. At the very least, testing and debugging are more involved, and more knowledge about hardware is required. The following steps can be used as a general guide to driver development.

Preparation

Implementation

Follow-up


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