Re: Where to put the source of a DD of a custom hardware.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 03:58:40PM -0200, Raphael Philipe wrote:

Hi,

I'm developing a device driver to drive a specific custom hardware, that is implemented in FPGA. Since it is an application specific device driver, where (in witch folder) should I put Its source in my local kernel source tree? Is there any guideline or best practice about it?

This device driver is basically a character device, that copies stuff from hardware to kernel space and then from user space.

Why not just use the UIO interface, which does not need a kernel driver at all? Why are you needing a char driver? thanks, greg k-h