On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 02:39 +0530, Gideon D'souza wrote: > So I've submitted some patches for some tiny ongoing refactoring. > > In the hopes of moving to more _real_ work I've been snooping at the > ethernet drivers. I was especially curious about driver code that is > running for my own hardware. > > I found out with lshw that I'm running a Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 > Wireless Network Adapter and a RTL8101E/RTL8102E NIC.
> For the atheros drivers after much google-fun I came by this > wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k and (correct me if I'm > wrong) there isn't a datasheet for this (and generally atheros) > drivers? They've been rev-engg'd ? The ath9k driver is supported by Qualcomm-Atheros - no reverse-engineering required. I don't know what their policy is for releasing programming manuals, but it might require an NDA. > I went on the the realtek driver, I found this article on writing a > realtek driver (http://linuxgazette.net/156/jangir.html) I also looked > at Linux Device Drivers, both are pretty old. I also started reading > Documentation/pci/* [...] The Realtek chips (RTL8101E and RTL8102E) are meant to be supported by r8169 so there is no need for a new driver. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.
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