I come from a python background and recently I've been wanting to start writing drivers for Linux. I looked at several different resources (A bunch of docs written by GKH, JCorbet, and etc.) and they have been of great help. However, I have some questions which were not really answered. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 1. I am familiar with C but have never really written a driver. What are the guidelines? Meaning, what are best practices on how to write these drivers. Specifically, what should go in header .h files and what should not (Maybe that's more related to generic C programming...). When is it appropriate to place them in /usr/include instead of the driver folder. 2. What about debugging drivers? I have read a bunch of docs talking about gdb, kdbg, etc. But again what are best practices here? 3. How do I know if a driver has already been written? Right now, I simply do a grep -R trying to match several device name strings. 4. Tips on how to get started? I have read several example drivers but are there any 'platinum' class drivers that you can recommend that is clear and that you recommend regularly to beginners. (Specifically networking phy drivers in my case.) I apologize if these questions have been answered/asked before. Thanks for any help. Amit
