[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am about to modify a Linux v2.2.x-compatible Ethernet driver to allow it to
> work in the new v2.4.x kernel. Are there any documents which describe the
> differences in the device driver models (particularly PCI and Ethernet) of the 2
> kernel versions? If so, where can I find them?
Not all in one place. Read:
Documentation/pci.txt
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
Documentation/IO-mapping.txt
and the attached document, regarding netdevice member locking rules.
Your best reference is other PCI ethernet drivers. grep for
'pci_module_init' in drivers/net/*.c of the most recent 2.4.x kernel,
for a good start.
Also... before you start thinking about gunking-up your driver with all
sorts of backwards-compatibility code... remember that most 2.4.x
drivers can easily be backported to 2.2.x with a few magic macros and
static inline functions. I have an example of this sort of thing at
http://gtf.org/garzik/drivers/kcompat24/
Jeff
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