The Kernel Newbie Corner: Loadable Kernel Modules, Coming and Going

Posted by LinuxScribe on Jul 8, 2009 8:38 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Rob Day
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This week, we're going to take an excruciatingly close look at one of the fundamental features of loadable kernel modules--the "init" and "exit" routines

This week, we're going to take an excruciatingly close look at one of the fundamental features of loadable kernel modules--the "init" and "exit" routines--those functions that are invoked upon module loading and unloading, respectively. And I'm not at all ashamed to admit that I'm swiping a good chunk of this column from the classic book, "Linux Device Drivers (3rd ed.)" (LDD3), available online here. Specifically, we'll be filching our stuff from Chapter 2, but expanding on a good bit of it.

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