Rating: 
Summary: Linux Device Drivers - O'Reilly's best!
Review: This is both an excellent tutorial and reference. That's about all you can say. It is complete, concise and the flow is logical.
Rating:
Summary: Linux Device Drivers
Review: This is the best and most complete book on writing linux device drivers yet. My only suggestions are (1) that the author writes a new addition or supplement for the 2.2 kernel and (2) that this new book include an example driver after the hello world driver that is only slighlty more complicated in that it uses the fops and one method. An example of how user-space code would then call this driver would be helpful as well.Bravo
Rating:
Summary: The best
Review: This is the best book for writing Linux Device Drivers. I, knowing nothing about hardware programming, was able to understand better how a computer works!
Rating: 
Summary: Review of Linux Device Drivers
Review: This is the best book on the topic because it is the only book. It gives a rather clear idea of what a driver is and does and provides interesting details about the inner workings of the linux kernel. However, it only provides snipets of code. Complete working examples are lacking. If, for example you are trying to figure out how to write a device driver that uses interrupts and actually works... good luck. The book needs to be upgraded for the 2.2 kernel as none of the examples work with this kernel. O'Reilly has a website where one can get examples that are supposed to work with the new kernel. They don't and they are not complete. I'd suggest waiting for the second edition. That's probably why the price for this edition has been dropped by %20.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Drivers Book
Review: This was an incredibly useful and finely written book. I found the structure and progression of the material to be extremely good and well thought out. It has proved itself invaluable to me.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Drivers Book
Review: This was an incredibly useful and finely written book. I found the structure and progression of the material to be extremely good and well thought out. It has proved itself invaluable to me.
Rating:
Summary: Very good descripion of linux kernel and driver interface
Review: Very well written, everything clearly explained. I needed to write a driver for a flash memory device in an embedded PC, and this book really helped to do the task, along with the kernel sources.
Rating:
Summary: Good, but could be better.
Review: While I have found this book to be the best reference available on the topic, it is largely because it is the only book available on the topic at the moment. When it was released in 1998, I'm sure it was a far better resource, but with the changes made in the 2.2 (and upcomming 2.4 kernels) This book is BADLY in need of updating. While informative, the writing leaves something to be desired. Often, the only way to comprehend a section is to read it a couple times, make notes of questions, and come back to it after reading later sections or digging up the information online. My advice if you need this information, but can wait for a few months is to wait for the second edition, due later this year. Hopefully it's authorship will be more in keeping with the traditions of O'Reilly and associates.
| 
