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From: andi.platschek@gmail.com (Andreas Platschek)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Difference between user space drivers and kernel space drivers
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:10:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501695C3.6060406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJWqLGDPUCd=RaiJ9kxFDDMurb7D-E+3UO2oDOHowq8qR5=1oA@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/30/2012 05:30 AM, Manu Gupta 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?
>
>
>    
Hi!

This paper: https://www.osadl.org/fileadmin/dam/rtlws/12/Koch.pdf

answers both questions.

regards,
andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-30 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30  3:30 Difference between user space drivers and kernel space drivers Manu Gupta
2012-07-30  6:34 ` ankur dwivedi
2012-07-30  6:36 ` Sannu K
2012-07-30 14:10 ` Andreas Platschek [this message]

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