Re: Pointers for porting a network driver

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:30:35PM +0530, Ans_linux wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I have custom network device driver working fine with 2.6.20.1 kernel.  I am
> planning to port the driver to Linux-2.6.36 or higher.

Why isn't this driver in the main kernel tree?  If it is merged then you
would not have to do this work.  Please get it merged so you will not
have to do this again in the future.

> It will be great if somebody can help me with pointers to network API
> changes ,data structure changes ,and other stuffs which I need to take care
> while porting.

All of the changes are provided in the kernel git tree with the changes
provided there.

Just use that and you should be fine.

good luck,

greg k-h

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