Linux Device Drivers

Mechanism and policy

Classes of devices

Deliberate and incidental security

Command line utilities

• The lspci command shows detailed information about all PCI buses and devices on the system:
• The dmesg command shows all device drivers recognized by the kernel:

Listing available drivers is possible using /sbin/lsmod and find /lib/modules. If a driver is available but not recognized by lspci or dmesg, then load the kernel module using sudo modprob MODULE_NAME