Hi Greg,

Thanks for the response.

I don't really know why the driver left out from mainline kernel. I am
planning to merge it once I port it to latest kernel.

BTW anybody documents which can help me in porting driver. I am bit new
to Linux kernel development.

Thanks
Anoop

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:30:35PM +0530, Ans_linux wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > I have custom network device driver working fine with 2.6.20.1 kernel.  I
> am
> > planning to port the driver to Linux-2.6.36 or higher.
>
> Why isn't this driver in the main kernel tree?  If it is merged then you
> would not have to do this work.  Please get it merged so you will not
> have to do this again in the future.
>
> > It will be great if somebody can help me with pointers to network API
> > changes ,data structure changes ,and other stuffs which I need to take
> care
> > while porting.
>
> All of the changes are provided in the kernel git tree with the changes
> provided there.
>
> Just use that and you should be fine.
>
> good luck,
>
> greg k-h
>

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