Subject: Re: driver writer wannabe needs a few hints
To: Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net>
From: Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/13/2002 09:24:17
Jon Buller wrote:

> I had this working on 1.6, but now on -current, my "driver" is not
> compiling so well.  If I'm really lucky, I may get audio out of my
> SS20 someday, otherwise, I'm just trying to learn the basics of
> writing a driver...
> 
> I have upgraded config, but either some of my sources are wrong,
> or some of the man pages in section 9 are out of date.  (And the
> drivers I was looking at for hints just magically work.)  My file
> starts out with these struct definitions, and the prototypes to go
> with them.

Nobody has updated the section 9 documentation since the (relatively)
recent ISA, config and device rototils.  I can forward you the commit
logs of these changes so that the documentation can be updated.

	-- Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>