[plug] Compiling a driver

[Earnshaw, Mike]

I have wimped out. Got one of the developers here to have a look and he
said it's not worth it. DPT say they will have a "compiled" driver in
the next few weeks for 2.2.14

In the meantime I have the box running RH6 (supported driver) as my data
server. Just got to apply the fixes now.

Thanks anyway

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Wright [mailto:pete at cygnus.uwa.edu.au]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:35 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Compiling a driver
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 03:28:45PM +0800, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:
> > Peter / List,
> > 
> > 1. The file is called 109diff
> > 2. Copied the file to a spare 6.2 box, installed with everything
> > 3. As root : gcc -f 109diff       ---> the following results:
> > 
> > 		/usr/bin/ld:109diff:1: file format not recognised:
> > treating as linear script
> > 		/usr/bin/ld:109diff:1: parse error
> > 		collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Aha.
> 
> > No idea what it means!
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Any pointers please?
> 
> It's not a C file. It's almost certainly a diff file, for which you
> use the patch(1) command to apply to a source tree.
> 
> Really, the place you got it from should have instructions on how to
> use it, but if you're sure it doesn't...
> 
> If you actually read the file with an editor, you should get some
> clues as to what it should be applied to. Try mailing the first twenty
> or so lines of the file here, and I and/or others will have a guess.
> 
> Odds are it's probably a direct patch to the linux kernel source tree.
> Which means it's probably going to be a bastard to install if it's
> intended for a 2.2.12 kernel tree.
> 
> > Thanks
> 
> Pete.
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