The fact that this foundation has a bunch of paid, closed, certification courses makes Ciro Santilli not respect them at all. They should be making open access content instead!
Documents the Linux kernel. Somewhat of a competitor to Linux Kernel Module Cheat, but more wordy and less automated.
This is perhaps by far the most famous kernel driver book.
As of 2025 the latest version was quite old however, Linux Device Drivers book 3rd edition from 2005.
lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ contains the PDF of each chapter.
The book covers the Linux kernel version 2.6.10.
This repo has ported the kernels up to 5.10 as of writing. github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3/pull/86 attempts to go further into 6.x but has been ignored for two years unfortunately.

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