On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Quentin Garnier wrote:

> Le Sun, 24 Aug 2003 19:41:50 -0700
> Bruce J.A. Nourish a ecrit :
> [...]
> > I've considered LKM's as potentially the ideal solution to the problem,
> > but there are no examples of LKM network drivers. Could such a thing
> > be made reasonably easily? How would I go about it?
>
> The only thing you don't have with a LKM is the autoconfig stuff. So the
> layer between the LKM and the driver is a probe function. The rest of the
> process is rather dynamic (it has to, for removable devices anyway).
>
> For PCI it is easy to do with pci_find_device (see how I do it for the
> NVidia stuff).

Could you make a sample PCI driver that does this, or add comments on how
to do this to the LKM examples?

> For PCMCIA and Cardbus, it might be more difficult, though scanning the
> bus is always a possibility, I guess.

Well, the other option is to add the driver to the list of things that
will be found, and tell users to remove then re-insert the card. :-)

Take care,

Bill