linux-kernel - Re: How to port a legacy device driver to a new Linux platform?

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Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:31:24 +0159
From:	"Jiri Slaby" <lnx4us@...il.com>
To:	heavenscape <masonduan1@...a.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to port a legacy device driver to a new Linux platform?

On 7/28/06, heavenscape (sent by Nabble.com) <lists@...ble.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,
-- 
<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/">Jiri Slaby</a>
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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