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Re: eth device drivers
- To: <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] eth device drivers
- From: rob dot wj dot jansen at philips dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:52:18 +0200
- Cc: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
Trenton wrote:
> Does ETH_DRV_SC create the edb7xxx_sc variable used by NETDEVTAB_ENTRY?
> That's what it looks like in the eCos sources. Is there documentation
> for all this stuff, or does everyone have to look through the source
> like me? It would be nice to just have docs that say something like
> "ETH_DRV_SC creates a structured vairable of the type 'eth_hwr_funs' and
> fills it with all the function names, etc".
>
> With documentation like that, I wouldn't care about what the MACROS were
> doing, I would just use them.
I remember that RedHat sends out requests for help on a regular basis.
I guess they will be happy if someone wrote a guide about writing device drivers ;-)
Regards,
Rob Jansen
Software Engineer
Competence Center Platforms
BU Mobile Communications
Meijhorst 60-10, 6537 KT Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-24-353-6329
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