about linux serial driver development
Peter Barker
pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Fri Dec 6 14:34:02 EST 2002
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, 99084518d wrote:
> I find that if i modified the serial.c, i have to re-compile the whole kernel
> and reboot it such that i can use it. i have download the serial-5.05 version
> but i find it cannot be used in RedHat linux 7.3 (i386), could you please
> teach me how to remove the current serial driver and install it back instead
> of rebuild the whole kernel??
Compile serial support as a "module". Use the "module
utilities" (modutils) to insert and remove these "modules" from teh
running kernel. In this case, you would be inserting "serial.o".
Have a look in Documentation/modules.txt in your kernel source directory
for more information.
> mc
Yours,
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