... Chapter 1 :An Introduction to Device Drivers As the popularity of the Linux system continues to grow, the interest in writing Linux device drivers steadily increases. Most of Linux is independent ... modularity makes Linux drivers easy to write, to the point that there are now hundreds of them available. There are a number of reasons to be interested in the writing of Linux device drivers. The ... independent of the devices attached to the SCSI cable. Other classes of device drivers have been added to the kernel in recent times, including USB drivers, FireWire drivers, and I2O drivers. In...