Driver migration question

Driver migration question

[Georg Nikodym]

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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Re: Driver migration question

[Thunder from the hill]

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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