Driver (software)

This article will address Driver (software), a topic of great relevance today that has generated extensive debate and questions in different areas. In order to provide a broad and enriching vision of this topic, various aspects will be analyzed that will allow us to understand its importance and impact on society. Through the information presented, it is intended to generate a critical and reflective analysis that contributes to the enrichment of knowledge about Driver (software) and encourages reflection on its impact on current reality.

This article is about non hardware software drivers. For hardware device drivers, see Device driver.

A driver in software provides a programming interface to control and manage specific lower-level interfaces that are often linked to a specific type of hardware, or other low-level service. In the case of hardware, the specific subclass of drivers controlling physical or virtual hardware devices are known as device drivers.

Example

A client library for connecting to a database is often known as a driver, for example, the MySQL native driver for PHP.

References

1. ^ "What is a driver?". Microsoft. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
2. ^ "MySQL native driver for PHP - mysqlnd". MySQL. Retrieved 2 September 2018.

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