Porting network driver to 2.4.0

Porting network driver to 2.4.0

[Jonathan Earle]

Hey all,

Still working with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (other things we use require it for
now), and I was looking at a driver for a Znyx zx346q network card that I
grabbed from the znyx.com website.  The driver is for a 2.2.x kernel, but
figuring I'd try it anyway, downloaded and tried to build it.  It choked on
three struct net_device entries which are no longer present:
                                                  
zxe.c:1200: structure has no member named `tbusy'
zxe.c:1201: structure has no member named `interrupt'
zxe.c:1202: structure has no member named `start'
...
make[2]: *** [zxe.o] Error 1                              

Where do I go from here?  Is there info somewhere to help with this?  Is
this a bigger job than it looks on the surface?

Cheers!
Jon
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Re: Porting network driver to 2.4.0

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jonathan Earle wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Still working with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (other things we use require it for
> now), and I was looking at a driver for a Znyx zx346q network card that I
> grabbed from the znyx.com website.  The driver is for a 2.2.x kernel, but
> figuring I'd try it anyway, downloaded and tried to build it.  It choked on
> three struct net_device entries which are no longer present:
>                                                   
> zxe.c:1200: structure has no member named `tbusy'
> zxe.c:1201: structure has no member named `interrupt'
> zxe.c:1202: structure has no member named `start'
> ...
> make[2]: *** [zxe.o] Error 1                              
> 
> Where do I go from here?  Is there info somewhere to help with this?  Is
> this a bigger job than it looks on the surface?
> 
> Cheers!
> Jon

You may be lucky. Comment out all references to those structure members
and see if it works!


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.0 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.


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Re: Porting network driver to 2.4.0

[Mike Galbraith]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jonathan Earle wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Still working with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (other things we use require it for
> > now), and I was looking at a driver for a Znyx zx346q network card that I
> > grabbed from the znyx.com website.  The driver is for a 2.2.x kernel, but
> > figuring I'd try it anyway, downloaded and tried to build it.  It choked on
> > three struct net_device entries which are no longer present:
> >                                                   
> > zxe.c:1200: structure has no member named `tbusy'
> > zxe.c:1201: structure has no member named `interrupt'
> > zxe.c:1202: structure has no member named `start'
> > ...
> > make[2]: *** [zxe.o] Error 1                              
> > 
> > Where do I go from here?  Is there info somewhere to help with this?  Is
> > this a bigger job than it looks on the surface?
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > Jon
> 
> You may be lucky. Comment out all references to those structure members
> and see if it works!

I doubt it's possible to get _that_ lucky ;-)

IIRC, this was the conversion from struct device -> struct net_device.
(Also IIRC, interrupt was a 'toss it' item.. grep patches to be sure)

	-Mike

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Re: Porting network driver to 2.4.0

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:40:50PM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote:
> Where do I go from here?  Is there info somewhere to help with this?  Is
> this a bigger job than it looks on the surface?


Try http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/softnet


-Andi
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Re: Porting network driver to 2.4.0

[Manfred Spraul]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:40:50PM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote:
> > Where do I go from here?  Is there info somewhere to help with this?  Is
> > this a bigger job than it looks on the surface?
> 
> Try http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/softnet
> 

I would ask someone from znxz.

I downloaded their driver, and there are at least a few comments about
2.3 compatibility

(and I also found a 5000 line hardware abstraction layer, and only 9 out
of the 15 kernel files are GPL, the rest is "All rights reserved".
Obiously their Makefile allows to compile the driver statically into the
kernel.)

--
	Manfred
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