Essential Linux Device Drivers

Acknowledgments

First, I raise my hat to my editors at Prentice Hall: Debra Williams Cauley, Anne Goebel, and Keith Cline. Without their supporting work, this book would not have materialized. I thank Mark Taub for his interest in this project and for initiating it.

Several sources have contributed to my learning in the past decade: the many teammates with whom I worked on Linux projects, the mighty kernel sources, mailing lists, and the Internet. All these have played a part in helping me write this book.

Martin Streicher of Linux Magazine changed me from a full-time coder to a spare-time writer when he offered me the magazine’s “Gearheads” kernel column. I gratefully acknowledge the many lessons in technical writing that I’ve learned from him. ...