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Re: Newbie driver questions! pls reply!

At 8:53 AM -0800 1/5/05, Garth Cummings wrote:

Here's a good reading list for starters:

I'd also encourage you to look at examples, they're in the SDK, and the open source.

Also your questions seem to be about kernel drivers ("kexts"), if at all possible you should be thinking of userland drivers, which aren't drivers at all, but just a normal user process accessing the device. These are so much easier to work with than kexts, so unless you have a very good reason for needing a kext you should stick to userland.

A very good reason for a kext is usually that the device provides a service to the kernel, the kernel has most of those covered already. What sort of device do you have?

This looks like the relevant bit of your post:

At 11:38 PM -0800 1/4/05, JX the nuts wrote: 
Fourth question: is the USBprivateDataSample a
resemblance of an actual mac device driver?? it seems
to me that it resembles an application. Could anyone
reccomend me any good and detailed Mac device driver
samples in any way?

It may very well be an application, and unless you have a good reason, that's the way to go.
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Barry Twycross
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