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From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: jalaja devi <jala_74@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device driver from kernel2.2.x to kernel2.4
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:39:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF20855.D5F565F5@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14vO2i-00060Y-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010503190308.79916.qmail@web13702.mail.yahoo.com>

jalaja devi wrote:
> 
> I want to port a Network driver from kernel2.2.x to
> 2.4. Could anyone please point me a handy pointer
> where i can find a complete documentation.

http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/softnet/

Also, take a look at acenic.c and eepro100.c.  They
both support 2.2 and 2.4.  The compatibility macros
will provide pointers.

> I could find some, but not the complete changes
> required.
> 
> Also, Approximate time estimation for this migration
> from an experienced developer would be much helpful.

It took me about 30 minutes to scruffily hack a 2.2 net
driver into the 2.4 APIs.  I'd allow a day to do it
properly.  Plus another day for testing, especially
if you want to support SMP well.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-04  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-03  7:47 Why recovering from broken configs is too hard Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03  8:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-03  8:09   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03  8:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03  8:42 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2001-05-03  8:52   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03  8:45 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-03  9:14   ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03  9:43     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03  9:56       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 10:00       ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03 15:55         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 18:36           ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03 14:54       ` David Mansfield
2001-05-03 15:58         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 18:13           ` John Stoffel
2001-05-03  9:32   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 10:15 ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-05-03 16:59   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 17:48     ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 18:30       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 18:41         ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 19:03           ` Device driver from kernel2.2.x to kernel2.4 jalaja devi
2001-05-04  1:39             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-05-03 22:58     ` [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard Keith Owens
2001-05-03 19:20 ` Michal Jaegermann
2001-05-03 23:58 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-03 22:55   ` David Lang
2001-05-04  7:47   ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond

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