Addning new protocol and new driver on Linux

[Daniel.]

A new topic to the list :)

- Write netlink api for access with iproute2

Cheers,

2015-05-18 17:21 GMT-03:00 Daniel. <danielhilst at gmail.com>:

> Hi all!
>
> I have a driver for nordic nRF24L01+ module:
> http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/2.4GHz-RF/nRF24L01P
>
> I'm looking for a requirements list of what I need to do. For now I have
> this topics
>
> - Write driver using kernel NAPI (I already have a driver working with
> cdev API)
> - Write new protocol and export to userspace as a new socket type (no
> ideia on this)
>
> As example I'm using the linux socketCan, I want to do like they did, but
> with nRF24L01+. I have no ideia how this two topics touch one each other...
> Any documentation, simple examples, tutorials, guide lines, articles or irc
> chat on subject is welcome, I look on LDD3, but its outdated, I'm using
> kernel 3.0 for development,
>
> As first version requeriment I want to send frames (32 bytes fixed) with
> sendto() and receive (32 bytes fixed too) with recvfrom()... Messages
> should be enqueued while sending, the driver need to iterate over a
> circular list of remote nodes, exchaning frames and delivering the received
> to userspace...
>
> Something like:
>
> for (;;) {
>   node *n = get_next_node();
>   send_frames_to(n); // <- send enqueed frames, unblocking sendto() caller
>   receive_frames_from(n); // <- deliver received frames to recvfrom()
> caller
> }
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Cheers
>
> --
> *"Do or do not. There is no try"*
>   *Yoda Master*
>



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