On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Bhagyashri Bhagvat wrote:
> I am new to this mailing list, and to the world
> of device drivers. Not sure if this is the right place
> for this question. Please, let me know if this is not
> the right place.
> I am developing a device driver for an ATM card,
That's a pretty big first step :-) Feel free to use mine
as a template, if you like:
http://www.hodges.org/rh/code/if_idt.tar.gz
> and need to develop a debug interface, like a console,
> so that I can access the card from the host. Can I
> integrate a character device driver with my ATM driver
> to provide a debug interface?
The network drivers don't behave like character drivers.
For status only messages, you could add a few sysctl entries
to enable verbose messages, or maybe export a small number
of important values.
Is it possible to work with a "stateless CLI"? You might
set up a magic address that you can use to send network
packets to, in order to talk to the driver :-) This would
be a bit more involved with a statefull shell, but not
impossible (you could keep state in mbufs, for example).
What kind of ATM driver are you going to work on? Whatever
it is, I will probably be very interested in your progress!
All the best,
-Richard
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