IV. Driver/Kernel Module programming concepts

Part IV: Driver/Kernel Module programming concepts (Linux only, but the concepts do carry through other OSes):

1. Mechanism vs. Policy and the C implementation of interfaces/strategy pattern, Makefiles
2. File ops - synchronous vs asynchronus, calls, context
3. Debugging
4. Mutual exclusion
5. Interrupts and tasklets
6. Memory concepts, allocation, mapping
7. Introduction to subsystems and the driver model, sysfs/procfs