Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Mike McLeod" <> | Subject | Re: Device Driver | Date | Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:24:28 +1000 |
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that would be great if you could give me some instructions on generating a patch and updating the kernel. Thanks
regards
Mike
ps. I can't seem to mail you directly
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <kaos@ocs.com.au>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Owens" <kaos@ocs.com.au> To: "Mike McLeod" <michaelm@platypustechnology.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:57 PM Subject: Re: Device Driver
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:30:39 +1000, > "Mike McLeod" <michaelm@platypustechnology.com> wrote: > >The company I work for has developed a new piece of hardware, and we are > >eager to have the drivers for this hardware included as part of the > >Linux kernel. Currently, we have customers who have been using our > >product for a couple of months, and so far we have had no problems. All > >of the code is open except for an image file that is loaded onto the > >card when the driver is installed that handles it's logic. From here, > >how do we begin the process of getting our drivers included into the > >kernel? > > You need to generate a patch to add the code into the relevant kernel > directory and update the Makefile accordingly. Since this is messy for > beginners, contact me (kaos@ocs.com.au) off list and I can get you > through it. > > ps. Please tell Outlook to send mail to linux-kernel using plain text > instead of quoted printable + HTML, the latter wastes bandwidth > and messes up patches.
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