Device Driver & Writing
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The official GTU curriculum for Device Driver & Writing (subject code 2181106) as prescribed for ECE · Semester 8 divides the course into 6 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2181106)Unit 1 An Introduction to Device Drivers and Char Drivers
- The Role of the Device Driver
- Splitting the Kernel
- Classes of Devices and Modules
- Security Issues
- Building and Running Modules
- The Design of scull
- Major and Minor Numbers
- Some Important Data Structures
- Char Device Registration
- open and release
- scull’s Memory Usage
- read and write
Unit 2 Debugging Techniques
- Debugging Support in the Kernel
- Debugging by Printing
- Debugging by Querying
- Debugging by Watching
- Debugging System Faults
- Debuggers and Related Tools
Unit 3 Concurrency and Race conditions
- Pitfalls in scull
- Concurrency and Its Management
- Semaphores and Mutexes
- Locking Traps
- Alternatives to Locking
Unit 4 Advanced Char driver operations
- poll and select
- Asynchronous Notification
- Seeking a Device
- Access Control on a Device File
Unit 5 Time, Delays and Deferred work
- Measuring Time Lapses
- Knowing the Current Time
- Delaying Execution
- Kernel Timers
Unit 6 Allocating memory and communicating with hardware
- N: Analyze and E: Evaluate C: Create and above Levels (Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy)
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