Understanding the genetic makeup of Linux device drivers

  • Authors:
  • Peter Senna Tschudin;Laurent Réveillère;Lingxiao Jiang;David Lo;Julia Lawall;Gilles Muller

  • Affiliations:
  • LIP6 -- Inria & UPMC;LaBRI;Singapore Management University;Singapore Management University;LIP6 -- Inria & UPMC;LIP6 -- Inria & UPMC

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Attempts have been made to understand driver development in terms of code clones. In this paper, we propose an alternate view, based on the metaphor of a gene. Guided by this metaphor, we study the structure of Linux 3.10 ethernet platform driver probe functions.