From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932126AbWG3Jc0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:32:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932143AbWG3Jc0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:32:26 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.176]:14123 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932126AbWG3JcZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:32:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FWwmw33chYNHWaQE98VjDT5p7ek3FnJsdQeh/Elui5yhJ+S6doR3H5s84ZH76HEe5YcyivNuowgAOHfN/bT/81xP6WbMJTuYH3LeCP8M5MlRh/RSwTF6VkPMuMTgRCCoXVZXaBH/PtmIV9kM9sW7fQwMH/hknY1GU/X7UmnFnww= Message-ID: <3888a5cd0607300232o400c76d8gcd006b7f45ecc71@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:31:24 +0159 From: "Jiri Slaby" To: heavenscape Subject: Re: How to port a legacy device driver to a new Linux platform? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <5535638.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5535638.post@talk.nabble.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/28/06, heavenscape (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a legacy PCI fiber card running under Red Hat Linux 7.3, and I have > all the source code of its driver developped by others. Please see the > attachment. > > http://www.nabble.com/user-files/135/cyport71.tar cyport71.tar > > It is working fine right now. But I am going to upgrade my OS to Rea Hat > Enterprise Linux AS 4, I am not sure how can I recompile and install this > fiber card in the new OS. I am new to Linux and have minimal experience in > programming Linux. But this card is very important to me. > > Any suggestion is highly appreciated!! Thanks!! You may do rework of the driver and post it: see Documentation/HOWTO, especially Documentation/SubmittingDrivers. It won't be so hard, if you don't feel cool enough, I may try my best, but tell me the source (cvs?) address of the drivers. What kind of device is that? regards, -- Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E