RF class driver

[Daniel.]

I look into it,

Still I need to patch if_ether.h and add some ETH_P_*

2016-09-21 9:57 GMT-03:00 Hayward, Shaun <haywshau at amazon.com>:
> It might be worth taking a look at the Socket CAN drivers (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/can.txt). It’s not the same type of hardware as the RF devices you’re working with, but it is a case where a network interface was created for devices that are very different than Ethernet.
>
> Shaun
>
> On 9/21/16, 8:43 AM, "kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org on behalf of Daniel." <kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org on behalf of danielhilst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I have a driver for nRF24L01+ (not L0) I'm planing to submit it to
>     main line but before that I was trying to make it a network device. My
>     dificult was to make it fit in the ethernet world since it does not
>     have anything in common to a network card. This one can be found here:
>     https://bitbucket.org/danielhilst/nrf24 the network try is here, but
>     is not finished: https://bitbucket.org/danielhilst/nrf24l01p
>
>     2016-09-21 7:08 GMT-03:00 Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>:
>     > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 03:09:09PM +0530, Raul Piper wrote:
>     >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>     >>  I wanted to know in which class RF Transceivers - (Sub 1 -Ghz
>     >> devices) Linux drivers will fall and where to find them in Linux
>     >> kernel ,
>     >>  I grepped keywords like Ghz, Sub , and it leads me to the folder
>     >> drivers/net/wireless/* but I am not getting whether they refer to the
>     >> RF class of drivers or something else.
>     >
>     > Those are wireless networking drivers.
>     >
>     >> Is there a framework for them or
>     >> all will come under Wireless device drivers or network device
>     >> drivers?What is the appropriate mailing list for the same?
>     >
>     > linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org
>     >
>     >> Few example of such devices are -
>     >>
>     >> Sub-1 GHz CC1120-CC1190 - From Texas Instruments
>     >>
>     >> nRF905 - From Nordic Semiconductor
>     >>
>     >> nRF9E5 - From Nordic Semiconductor
>     >>
>     >> nRF24L01 - From Texas Instruments
>     >>
>     >> Si4455  - From Silicon Labs
>     >> OL23xx  - From Nxp.
>     >
>     > Those are almost always integrated directly into a wifi chipset, and not
>     > independant.  If you have an independant device, the GNU Radio project
>     > might be a good thing to look into.
>     >
>     > good luck!
>     >
>     > greg k-h
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