Thanks for the response.
I don't really know why the driver left out from mainline kernel. I am planning to merge it once I port it to latest kernel.
BTW anybody documents which can help me in porting driver. I am bit new to Linux kernel development.
Thanks
Anoop
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:30:35PM +0530, Ans_linux wrote:Why isn't this driver in the main kernel tree? If it is merged then you
> 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.
would not have to do this work. Please get it merged so you will not
have to do this again in the future.
All of the changes are provided in the kernel git tree with the changes
> 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.
provided there.
Just use that and you should be fine.
good luck,
greg k-h
