Hi Marcus, I think you can also talk with Donald Becker. He's often involved in writing drivers for NIC's on Linux. He's e-mail address is; becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov Have a nice day. Jones On Tue, 20 February 2001, Fernando Fuganti wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcus Ramos wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am developing an application with RH7 that will require minor changes > > to be introduced in the source code of a 3Com PCI ethernet driver > > (3c90x.c and 3c990x.h). I already have the code im my hands, however I > > miss some sort of documentation that guides me through the more than > > 3.000 lines of code ... Is there any book, article ou whatever that I > > can refer to in order to better understand its internals ? > > this source is well documented, and if you are about to know the internals > of a linux network driver, you must look at a "skeleton driver", skeleton.c, > that is very well documented. > > You can try the book Linux Device Drivers, by Alessandro Rubini, too. > It's almost out dated (2.0->2.2) but it will help you understand some > kernel internals and the lastest changes. > > > Fernando Fuganti > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
