From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262670AbVF2V2s (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:28:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262681AbVF2V2s (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:28:48 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.202]:55385 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262678AbVF2V1o convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:27:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c0WTDKvpiWzE0PijxM/NKl9fYW9v0yAW2aQXOkkmE/6bJiHitlyyfRQ2ubv5PAspCJ5Lfk8G1s6l2QDxkS/CFAelM2Dr4CeAlmd5SDT/ffVjKVPwa8/LykPRmTRg4BHsHkOJ0gUFbar4zDWF5SFROebUbM5iN0AX1Fvx4Y9eiCc= Message-ID: <9a87484905062914275c5de0c9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:27:38 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: Howard Owen Subject: Re: Newbie Roadmap? Cc: LKML List In-Reply-To: <1119896432.9541.88.camel@Quirk.egbok.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <1119896432.9541.88.camel@Quirk.egbok.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/27/05, Howard Owen wrote: > I've embarked on a project to write device drivers for an obscure and > rare ISA card. It's a modern version of the HP 82973 HP-IL interface > produced by Cristoph Klug. HP-IL was a bit-serial, dog-slow version of > HP-IB (IEEE-488) that was designed to work with the HP-41C family of > calculators, and later with the HP-71 and HP-85. The 41C calculators are > my hobby interest. I'd like to introduce myself, and ask for pointers > for a newbie device driver author. > [...] > > What I've done so far: I've picked up and started reading "Linux Device > Drivers" both editions 2 and 3. I'm about half way through Love's "Linux > Kernel Development" Good choice of books. [...] > I'm starting > out running Slack 10.1, so I'll probably tackle the 2.4 driver first. > Slackware runs just fine with a 2.6 kernel. I've been running 2.5.x and 2.6.x kernels on Slack for ages and I'm currently running 2.6.13-rc1 with Slackware-current. [...] > If anyone has suggestions or pointers for a newbie with the above > background, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. > You probably already know this, but since you ask I'll point out the obvious :-) Some good documents to read : Documentation/CodingStyle Documentation/SubmittingDrivers Documentation/SubmittingPatches And this I find to be a good website for new kernel hackers : http://kernelnewbies.org/ -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html