In general, something you hope someone else has written for you

• In general, something you hope someone else has written for you

• Needed for devices where a driver isn't available

• Start with good information from the device manufacturer

• We want a “kernel loadable module” so we don't have to reboot every time we want to make a change to the driver

• • http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/