Re: driver API

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 13:36:56 EST


rsevenic wrote:
>
> I am not a member of this list at this point, so
> if you care to respond please copy to
> rsevenic@linuxstart.com
>
> The number of folks interested in writing device
> drivers is rapidly escalating, especially with
> large companies getting on the bandwagon.
>
> One of the largest hurdles for these folks is
> gleaning changes to the device driver API as
> the kernel moves from 2.0 -> 2.2 -> 2.4. This
> can be accomplished (very inefficiently) by
> watching this list perhaps as digested by kernel
> traffic, watching for articles such as Alan
> Cox's article on the 2.0 -> 2.2 transition in
> linux-mag, etc.

It sounds like you missed repeated postings of Richard Gooch's API
update guides...

http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.3.html

-- 
Jeff Garzik              | Tact is the ability to tell a man 
Building 1024            | he has an open mind when he has a
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       | hole in his head.  (-random fortune)

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