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udev (userspace /dev) is a device manager for the Linux kernel.As the successor of devfsd and hotplug, udev primarily manages device nodes in the /dev directory. At the same time, udev also handles all user space events raised when hardware devices are added into the system or removed from it, including firmware loading as required by certain devices.
Video4Linux (V4L for short) is a collection of device drivers and an API for supporting realtime video capture on Linux systems. It supports many USB webcams, TV tuners, and related devices, standardizing their output, so programmers can easily add video support to their applications.
Input/output. v. t. e. In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. [1] A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions ...
Kroah-Hartman is a co-author of Linux Device Drivers (3rd Edition) and author of Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, and used to be a contributing editor for Linux Journal. He also contributes articles to LWN.net, the Linux news site. Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks and tutorials.
Linux Tools. Wireless tools for Linux is a collection of user-space utilities written for Linux kernel -based operating systems to support and facilitate the configuration of device drivers of wireless network interface controllers and some related aspects of networking using the Linux Wireless Extension. The Wireless tools for Linux and Linux ...
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ( ALSA) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers . Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a ...
Evdev and libevdev form a prominent part of the Linux API. evdev (short for 'event device') is a generic input event interface in the Linux kernel and FreeBSD. [1] It generalizes raw input events from device drivers and makes them available through character devices in the /dev/input/ directory. The user-space library for the kernel component ...
SocketCAN is a set of open source CAN drivers and a networking stack contributed by Volkswagen Research to the Linux kernel. SocketCAN was formerly known as Low Level CAN Framework (LLCF). Typical CAN communication layers. With SocketCAN (left) or conventional (right). Traditional CAN drivers for Linux are based on the model of character devices.