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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:59:09 +0200 From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> To: Thomas Langås <thomas.langaas@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Support for Asix AX88796 Thomas Langås <thomas.langaas@...il.com> : [...] > I found a driver [1] that I managed to patch into the linux 2.6.9-kernel, > but upon booting the dreambox it doesn't detect the networkcard. I suspect > it because of this (found inside the ne.c-file used by the dreambox): >From a (very) quick sight at [1] it looks like a platform driver... without the platform specific part (i.e. like drivers/net/gianfar.c if there was no arch/ppc/syslib/mpc85xx_devices.c). [...] > CONFIG_DM56xx is enabled, so there seems to be a hardcoded base_addr > used to probe for the networkchip (which is no surprise since this is for an > embedded device). But I'm a bit puzzled to where I should put this in the > driver below, because it didn't seem to start probing at all when I > added printk's > to try and debug. > > Any pointers at all on where to start would be helpfull. :-) Create a platform_device named "ax88796" to describe the specific of the DM5xyz platform, pass it through platform_device_register and the driver in [1] should notice that something is going on. > In advance, thanks! Good luck. -- Ueimor Anybody got a battery for my Ultra 10 ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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