how does ifconfig communicates with network device driver strace output given

2010-11-11 Thread Tapas Mishra
Hi, I read the 17th Chapter of LDD3 and explored what is a network device driver. I wanted to understand in real context the working of network device driver on my laptop. The book described about snull (dummy ) device. So here is the problem when I do an ifconfig the open,close, and other methods

Re: Arm programming

2010-11-11 Thread Tirtha Ghosh
Googling should give you lot of good results. Here are some links http://free-electrons.com/docs/arm-linux/ http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/ Best part you can go through Texas Instruments Zoom products and download the source code to get known to it. http://www.omapzoom.org/wiki/Main_Page

Arm programming

2010-11-11 Thread nidhi mittal hada
Hi all We have got a work in which we have to realize a few communication interfaces like usb tcp/ip rs422 with arm processor we chose arm cortex M3 .so we want to start learning arm cortex M3 programming in C . Please guide if any one has experience in any arm microprocessors programming . if p

Re: Pointers for porting a network driver

2010-11-11 Thread Greg KH
A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:05:22AM +0530, Ans_linux wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for the response. > > I don't really know why the driver left out from mainline kernel. I am > planning to merge it on

Re: Pointers for porting a network driver

2010-11-11 Thread Ans_linux
Hi Greg, 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

Re: Pointers for porting a network driver

2010-11-11 Thread Greg KH
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 hav