... 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 ... (as explained in Chapter 2, "Building and Running Modules", in the section "Version Dependency", and Chapter 11, " ;kmod and Advanced Modularization", in the section ... Char devices are accessed by means of filesystem nodes, such as /dev/tty1 and /dev/lp0. The only relevant difference between a char device and a regular file is that you can always move back and...