Table of Contents  (of Linux device drivers book.. NEEDS MODIFICATIONS)
Preface

Chapter 1. Overview
   
   The Role of the Device Driver
   Splitting the Kernel
   Classes of Devices and Modules
   Security Issues
   Version Numbering
   License Terms
   Joining the Kernel Development Community
   Overview of the Book

Chapter 2. Building and Running Modules
   Kernel Modules Versus Applications
   Compiling and Loading
   The Kernel Symbol Table
   Initialization and Shutdown
   Using Resources
   Automatic and Manual Configuration
   Doing It in User Space
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 3. Char Drivers
   The Design of scull
   Major and Minor Numbers
   File Operations
   The file Structure
   open and release
   scull's Memory Usage
   A Brief Introduction to Race Conditions
   read and write
   Playing with the New Devices
   The Device Filesystem
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 4. Debugging Techniques
   Debugging by Printing
   Debugging by Querying
   Debugging by Watching
   Debugging System Faults
   Debuggers and Related Tools

Chapter 5. Enhanced Char Driver Operations
   ioctl
   Blocking I/O
   poll and select
   Asynchronous Notification
   Seeking a Device
   Access Control on a Device File
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 6. Flow of Time
   Time Intervals in the Kernel
   Knowing the Current Time
   Delaying Execution
   Task Queues
   Kernel Timers
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 7. Getting Hold of Memory
   The Real Story of kmalloc
   Lookaside Caches
   get_free_page and Friends
   vmalloc and Friends
   Boot-Time Allocation
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 8. Hardware Management
   I/O Ports and I/O Memory
   Using I/O Ports
   Using Digital I/O Ports
   Using I/O Memory
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 9. Interrupt Handling
   Overall Control of Interrupts
   Preparing the Parallel Port
   Installing an Interrupt Handler
   Implementing a Handler
   Tasklets and Bottom-Half Processing
   Interrupt Sharing
   Interrupt-Driven I/O
   Race Conditions
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 10. Judicious Use of Data Types
   Use of Standard C Types
   Assigning an Explicit Size to Data Items
   Interface-Specific Types
   Other Portability Issues
   Linked Lists
   Quick Reference

Chapter 11. kmod and Advanced Modularization
   Loading Modules on Demand
   Intermodule Communication
   Version Control in Modules
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 12. Loading Block Drivers
   Registering the Driver
   The Header File blk.h
   Handling Requests: A Simple Introduction
   Handling Requests: The Detailed View
   How Mounting and Unmounting Works
   The ioctl Method
   Removable Devices
   Partitionable Devices
   Interrupt-Driven Block Drivers
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 13. mmap and DMA
   Memory Management in Linux
   The mmap Device Operation
   The kiobuf Interface
   Direct Memory Access and Bus Mastering
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 14. Network Drivers
   How snull Is Designed
   Connecting to the Kernel
   The net_device Structure in Detail
   Opening and Closing
   Packet Transmission
   Packet Reception
   The Interrupt Handler
   Changes in Link State
   The Socket Buffers
   MAC Address Resolution
   Custom ioctl Commands
   Statistical Information
   Multicasting
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 15. Overview of Peripheral Buses
   The PCI Interface
   A Look Back: ISA
   PC/104 and PC/104+
   Other PC Buses
   SBus
   NuBus
   External Buses
   Backward Compatibility
   Quick Reference

Chapter 16. Physical Layout of the Kernel Source
   Booting the Kernel
   Before Booting
   The init Process
   The kernel Directory
   The fs Directory
   The mm Directory
   The net directory
   ipc and lib
   include and arch
   Drivers

Glossary

Index