Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:50:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:50:36 -0500 Received: from mail.zabbadoz.net ([195.2.176.194]:31504 "EHLO mail.zabbadoz.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:50:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:50:13 +0100 (CET) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" To: cc: Subject: Re: writing device drivers for commercial hardware In-Reply-To: <3C2A1D7E.25900.13D1DF@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 toxischerabflussreiniger@gmx.net wrote: > As I'm new to linux kernel development I wonder how to write a > device driver, say for a card reader, if you don't have some > documentation about it. > How do you manage that? Searching for it in the web? I really don't > know ... there's a small book with my card reader but you won't find > a single line about technical stuff in it. > It's a (pretty simple and cheap) card reader connected to serial port. Hi, did something similar before christmas. Had a small win installation in a vmware, slsnif running on the linux host and connected vmware on a ttyp slsnif gave me. easy. BTW what card reader is it ? There are already enough _user space_ implementations for serial smartcard readers. This is where this normally belongs to. Check http://www.linuxnet.com/ p.ex. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/