From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver migration question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:59:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A705B60.B9BF6A3F@ngforever.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14958.64899.320875.11952@somanetworks.com>
The way drivers have to be done is mixed of two aspects:
1. The way you do drivers and
2. the way the driver works.
You should also try not to rewrite existing functions for not to get a
mess of e.g. memory allocation functions that do the same but have
different names.
Georg Nikodym wrote:
>
> So, rather than repeated ask questions of the form:
>
> How do I change X (a 2.2 thingy in my driver) to the blessed
> form on 2.4.x?
>
> I'm wondering if there's a driver in the kernel tree that somebody can
> point to and say, "This is how drivers should be done." In
> particular, I'm interested in networking drivers but any non-trivial
> driver will do.
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2001-01-24 16:06 Driver migration question Georg Nikodym
2001-01-25 16:59 ` Thunder from the hill [this message]
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