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objects, Concurrency and Its Management, The Linux Device Model, Kobjects, Ksets, and Subsystems–Subsystems, Kobjects, Ksets, and Subsystems, Low-Level Sysfs Operations–Symbolic Links, Hotplug Event Generation

kobjects, Kobjects, Ksets, and Subsystems–Subsystems, Kobjects, Ksets, and Subsystems, Low-Level Sysfs Operations–Symbolic Links, Hotplug Event Generation

(see also kobjects)

hotplug event generation, Hotplug Event Generation

low-level sysfs operations, Low-Level Sysfs Operations–Symbolic Links

lifecycles, The Linux Device Model

sharing, Concurrency and Its Management

octets, Network Drivers

older interfaces, The Older Way, An older interface

char device registration, The Older Way

/proc file implementation, An older interface

oops messages, Oops Messages–Oops Messages

open files, The file Structure

open function (tty drivers), open and close–open and close

open method, File Operations, The file Structure, The open Method, Single-Open Devices, Restricting Access to a Single User at a Time, Blocking open as an Alternative to EBUSY, The vm_area_struct structure, Registering DMA usage, The open and release Methods, The Device Methods

block drivers, The open and release Methods

blocking, Blocking open as an Alternative to EBUSY

for network devices, The Device Methods

private_data and, The file Structure

requesting DMA channels, Registering DMA usage

restricting simultaneous users and, Restricting Access to a Single User at a Time

for single-open devices, Single-Open Devices

vm_operations_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure

opening network drivers, Opening and Closing–Opening and Closing

operations, File Operations–File Operations, File Operations, readv and writev, System Hangs, The Spinlock Functions, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Atomic Variables, Bit Operations, Bit Operations, Bit Operations, Bit Operations, Bit Operations, Bit Operations, Bit Operations, Bit Operations, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations, String Operations, Quick Reference, Operations on ksets, Low-Level Sysfs Operations–Symbolic Links, Hotplug Operations, Hotplug Operations, Bus methods, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure, The mmap Device Operation–Remapping Kernel Virtual Addresses, Adding VMA Operations, Asynchronous I/O, Block device operations, The Block Device Operations–The ioctl Method, Assigning IP Numbers, The Device Methods, The tty_operations Structure in Detail

aio_fsync, Asynchronous I/O

atomic_add, Atomic Variables

atomic_dec, Atomic Variables

atomic_dec_and_test, Atomic Variables

atomic_inc, Atomic Variables

atomic_inc_and_test, Atomic Variables

atomic_read, Atomic Variables

atomic_set, Atomic Variables

atomic_sub, Atomic Variables

atomic_sub_and_test, Atomic Variables

bit, Bit Operations

block drivers, Block device operations, The Block Device Operations–The ioctl Method

blocking, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations

change_bit, Bit Operations

clear_bit, Bit Operations

devices, The Device Methods

files, File Operations–File Operations

filter operation, Hotplug Operations

flush, File Operations

hotplugs, Hotplug Operations

on ksets, Operations on ksets

low-level sysfs, Low-Level Sysfs Operations–Symbolic Links

methods, Bus methods, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure, The vm_area_struct structure

(see also methods)

buses, Bus methods

close, The vm_area_struct structure

nopage, The vm_area_struct structure

open, The vm_area_struct structure

populate, The vm_area_struct structure

mmap devices, The mmap Device Operation–Remapping Kernel Virtual Addresses

nonblocking, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations

set_bit, Bit Operations

snull interfaces, Assigning IP Numbers

spinlocks, The Spinlock Functions

string, String Operations, Quick Reference

sysrq, System Hangs

test_and_change_bit, Bit Operations

test_and_clear_bit, Bit Operations

test_and_set_bit, Bit Operations

test_bit, Bit Operations

tty_operations structure, The tty_operations Structure in Detail

vector, readv and writev

VMAs (adding), Adding VMA Operations

optimizations, compiler, I/O Registers and Conventional Memory

options (configuration), Debugging Support in the Kernel–Debugging Support in the Kernel

ordering locking (rules for), Lock Ordering Rules

outb function, Manipulating I/O ports

outb_p function, Pausing I/O

outl function, Manipulating I/O ports

output, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations, Flushing pending output, Communicating with Hardware, An I/O Port Example, A Sample Driver

buffers, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations

flushing pending, Flushing pending output

pins, Communicating with Hardware, An I/O Port Example, A Sample Driver

outsb function, String Operations

outsl function, String Operations

outsw function, String Operations

outw function, Manipulating I/O ports

overriding ARP, Overriding ARP

overruns (buffers), Oops Messages

O_NDELAY flag (f_flags field), Blocking and Nonblocking Operations

O_NONBLOCK flag (f_flags field), The file Structure, The Predefined Commands, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations, Reading data from the device

read/write methods and, Reading data from the device

O_RDONLY flag (f_flags field), The file Structure

O_SYNC flag (f_flags field), The file Structure