[Glastonbury] Drivers

Damon Chaplin damon at karuna.uklinux.net
Mon Jul 12 11:29:17 BST 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 00:24, nick irwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know of any good resources for creating Linux drivers for hardware 
> (in particular gamepads). I have a gamepad that I can't get a Linux driver 
> for, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to learn.

This book may be useful, though it is for kernel 2.4:
  http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html

Otherwise I'd suggest just getting the kernel source and reading the
code for similar drivers. (Though I know nothing about the kernel, so
that may or may not be a good idea!)

Damon





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