searching for a missing driver

Ozgur Kara o at zgur.org
Wed May 23 02:26:31 EDT 2018



23.05.2018, 09:06, "Greg KH" <greg at kroah.com>:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:25:51PM -0400, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I've been reading documentation about linux drivers development for
>>  quite a while now, but never did anything really useful of it. Lack of
>>  time, but most importantly lack of projects to apply this knowledge.
>>  Now I've got some spare time ahead of me, and it seems to be the
>>  right moment to start a kernel driver project.
>>
>>  ... but I don't know exactly what kind of device driver I want to
>>  write, and what kind of device I want to work on.
>
> It's best to find a device you care about, that does not work on Linux,
> to do something like this, as you are going to be working on it for a
> while.
>
> But the problem is, as you are finding out, that almost everything
> already "just works" in Linux. Turns out Linux supports more hardware
> than any other operating system, sorry :)

:) 

I think seen the drivers/staging section in the kernel source. 
you can find a driver in the development phase.
for example, some new generation embedded modules and electronic devices don't work on Linux.

ps = raspian

Regards

Ozgur

> Try digging around in shops that sell "odd hardware", that might be the
> best way to find something like this.
>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h




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