Updated to cover version 2.4.x of the Linux kernel, the second edition of Linux Device Drivers remains the best general purpose, bound paper guides for programmers want to make hardware devices work under the most popular open-source operating system world. The authors take care to show how to write drivers that are portable - that is, that compile and run under all popular Linux platforms. That, together with the fact that they were careful to explain and illustrate concepts, makes this book very suitable for any programmer familiar with C but not with a software-hardware interface -. David Wall Topics covered: Techniques for writing hardware device drivers that run under Linux kernels 2.0.x through 2.2.x.