Difference between user space drivers and kernel space drivers

Manu Gupta manugupt1 at opensuse.org
Sun Jul 29 23:30:29 EDT 2012

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Hi All,

I have been trying to figure out the difference between user space
drivers and kernel space drivers. I have a few questions
1. What are user space drivers?
2. How are they beneficial and when are they usually used?



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Manu Gupta

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