Driver porting: Char devices and large dev_t

Posted Nov 28, 2004 20:47 UTC (Sun) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
In reply to: Driver porting: Char devices and large dev_t by r2b2lewis
Parent article: Driver porting: Char devices and large dev_t

Hi r2b2lewis,

A "driver" downloaded from xfree86.org usually means a userspace loadable driver which is used by X to drive some hardware - it's not actually a loadable kernel module however, so you're in the wrong place.

:-).

Jon.