Re: Converting kernel modules from 2.4 to 2.6/Suggested new driver

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:09:20 -0400 Kenny Bentley wrote:

| Hello.
| 
| Does anyone know if there is a detailed guide on how to convert kernel 
| modules for 2.4 kernels to modules for 2.6 kernels?  I know very little 
| about kernel module programming and haven't done any programming for a 
| long time, although I do have a programming background, and I have 
| drivers for HSF modems and Riptide sound cards that I want to convert 
| from 2.4 modules to 2.6 modules, which shouldn't be too hard.  But I'll 
| need a detailed guide to do it.

http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/

| Or since I've never done any kernel programming, I have a better idea.  
| I want to recommend the drivers for inclusion into the official kernel 
| tree.  The drivers were released open-source by Linuxant or the 
| manufacturer, I don't remember which one for sure.  But they're not 
| being developed any further, and the Riptide sound card driver only 
| supports OSS, and doesn't support ALSA.  Also, there are things in the 

OSS is deprecated.  It needs an ALSA driver.

| drivers that need fixing that surely a lot of you can do much better 
| than me.  I can help test the revised modules and I know how to put them 
| in the kernel tree, so I can do those parts.  But many of you can do the 
| programming better than I can.

You can recommend them for inclusion, but the developer or maintainer
of them needs to either submit them or at least approve their
submission for inclusion.

| I can't afford new hardware right now, and I had to search the net for 
| hours and maybe even days just to find these drivers, and almost gave up 
| hope of being able to use GNU/Linux as my primary OS.  I wouldn't want 
| others to have to go through that or settle for mediocre drivers.  If 
| there are any takers out there, just send me an E-mail and I'll send you 
| the drivers so you can hack away.  But at the very least I'd like to 
| know where I can find a detailed guild on how to convert kernel modules 
| from 2.4 to 2.6.

How about posting their web locations (wherever you found them)
in case someone is interested..?

--
~Randy