New driver

New driver

[Pixel]

Hello!

I've just joined this mailing-list so forgive-me if I do some mistakes.

I've done a little add-on to the linux kernel source in order to build
directly the driver for the em8300 chip. This chip is the main chip
of the DXR3 and Hollywood Plus mpeg decompression cards. Since now, the
source of this driver was an external source tree and it builded four
modules that drives the cards. But since the major update of the
2.4.0's Makefiles, it wasn't able to compile up.

As I really wanted to use both of them, I tried my best to make it
working and it cames into a patch against the linux-2.4.0-test13-pre4
kernel.

It adds a new section into the configuration tree in order to support
the mpeg decompression cards. And so it builds correctly this driver.

I wanted to share what I've done but since I'm very new to kernel hacking
I don't know what to do with my patch. Could you give me some hints?

Thanks!

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Re: New driver

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:19:37 +0100 (CET), 
Pixel@the-truth.nobis.phear.org wrote:
>I wanted to share what I've done but since I'm very new to kernel hacking
>I don't know what to do with my patch. Could you give me some hints?

linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

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Re: New driver

[Pixel]

> 
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:19:37 +0100 (CET), 
> Pixel@the-truth.nobis.phear.org wrote:
> >I wanted to share what I've done but since I'm very new to kernel hacking
> >I don't know what to do with my patch. Could you give me some hints?
> 
> linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> 

Ok. Since it's a new category, there's no maintainers for it. I'll post the patch here. 

And since it's quite a bit patch (about 120Kb) you can download the plain text patch at
this URL: http://www.ifrance.com/nobis/em8300-patch.

This patch is against the linux-2.4.0-test13-pre5 source tree.

Description: this is the integration of the em8300 driver available at
 http://dxr3.sourceforge.net

The primary driver is only an external source driver. So I decided to try to build it
directly into the kernel source tree (there was incompatibilities with the new
Makefile system) and to add a devfs support for the devices. As it is a new category,
I've added a submenu to the configuration system: MPEG cards into the Multimedia
section. Please note I didn't wrote this driver but simply integrated an existing
driver.

  -- Nicolas Noble

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