Method, system, and program for accessing device driver...

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2008-07-22

2008-07-22

Thomson, William (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Device driver communication

Device driver configuration

C710S010000, C710S072000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07404193

ABSTRACT:
Provided are a method, system, and program for communicating with a device. A kernel module is executed in memory and at least one kernel thread is executed in the memory to handle calls to device driver functions for the kernel module. The at least one kernel thread executes calls to device driver functions for the kernel module running in a kernel context.

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