Difference between user space drivers and kernel space drivers

ankur dwivedi ankurengg2003 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 02:34:57 EDT 2012


Hi Manu,

 Chp -02 in Linux device drivers book, has a section on user space
drivers.You will find that useful.Below is the link:

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Manu Gupta <manugupt1 at opensuse.org> wrote:

> 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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> Regards
> Manu Gupta
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Ankur

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