---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arthur Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 16, 2006 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Where to start with making a device driver To: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 5/16/06, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:49:32PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I have just purchased a Royal ezVue5 PDA (I don't exactly think it > deserves the genre of PDA, but oh well) just for the sole purpose of > writing a driver for it to connect to it LInux side via USB. Of > course, it comes with a CD for Windows drivers. But.. not exactly a > Windows person. I know some C++, and I am learning more (CS major). I > prefer python, but would exactly say that I am better in it. I learned > to code in Pascal/Delphi. The closest I have come to kernel coding is > compiling my own kernel years ago to get H323 support in Iptables. > > So what I want to ask of this is where do I start? What do I read up > on? What do I need, etc. I have been bored lately (waiting to get > accepted to G-SOC) and this is the only interesting coding project > that I could think of. > > Please advise. Try starting with the book, Linux Device Drivers, third edition. It's free online and has a USB chapter. Also the kernel has a lot of good USB driver documentation already in it (run 'make psdocs' to generate it) and there's a usb skeleton driver in the kernel tree to start out with (drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c.) Good luck, greg k-h
Okay. I saw that book on Amazon, but noted that it said that it was for 2.4x kernels. I am not a fan of doing that much reading on the computer (as much as I like computers). So I think I will go ahead and buy the book, esp. as it's an O'rielly book. But, what do you think of the combination of this with "Linux Kernel Development (2nd Edition)" ? Thanks. -- To be updated... -- To be updated... ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel