Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Thomas Kniplitsch wrote:
> hello,
>
> i need some help.
>
> i have to write an ide driver for an interface card we made.
> using kernel version 2.2.x i found two files which seems to bee the right
> ones for me. ide.c and ide-disk.c
>
> i copied ide-disk and changed it so that it is able to talk to our
> interface, compiled it and installed it using insmod. using cat
> /proc/ide/drivers i can see that my subdriver is registered, at least that's
> what i think. but how can i talk to the disk connected to my interface now??
> I expected there would eb some /dev/ide nodes but there none. how can i
> create a node for my device without having a major number. i think all work
> will be done by ide.c but for that there should be some nodes, but on my
> system there are only the hd nodes no ide nodes.
>
> so please, please can anybody tell me how to correctly register an subdriver
> for my interface and what other steps i have to do to read/write the disk
> connected to my interface.
>
> by the way, i don't map the io port of my interface. the driver im writing
> reads/writes the interface register directly.
>
> p.s. i looked through linux/documentation, but it didn't help me much.
>
> i'll be very happy about an answer
>
> thank
> thomas
>
>
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