Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:11:01 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Adding Serial Drivers to Linux Kernels |
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Hello,
You said:
> As an example of what we want, when running "make config" and requesting > Serial Card support, the Chase card should come up as an option and > work, irrespective of the kernel version.
Have a look at drivers/char/Config.in file. In it you will find a clause:
if [ "$CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD" = "y" ]; then tristate 'Comtrol Rocketport support' CONFIG_ROCKETPORT tristate 'Digiboard Intelligent Async Support' CONFIG_DIGIEPCA .....
since your boards presumably do not have the standard UART, they should be added within CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD.
Then, edit drivers/char/Makefile and do something like this:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CHASE_BOARDXXX),y) O_OBJS += chase_boardxxx.o else ifeq ($(CONFIG_CHASE_BOARDXXX),m) M_OBJS += chase_boardxxx.o endif endif
(obviously I invented the names CONFIG_CHASE_BOARDXXX and chase_boardxxx which you should replace with the real ones.)
Then, edit Documentation/Configure.help and add some text to serve as help for the corresponding CONFIG_CHASE_... configuration options.
Then, put your source code in drivers/char and everything should work.
What do you mean by "irrespective of the kernel version"? If you enable kernel module versioning and your driver is compiled as a module it should work (or fail correctly) independent of the kernel version but I would advise against relying on that. Since your driver source will be present in drivers/char (under GPL, of course) there is no problem with recompiling it.
Hope this helps, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796 Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
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