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Kernel driver

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A kernel driver is a program which tells the kernel how to use a piece of hardware, such as a disk drive or a sound card. Drivers can be statically compiled into a kernel, in which case the kernel and the driver are the same program file, or drivers can be used as kernel modules, in which case the driver program can be loaded from a seperate file and unloaded if it needs to be changed (or to save space, avoid breaking some other module, etc).

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Category: Glossary