[haiku-development] Re: Driver development - how to install a new driver
- From: Christian Packmann <Christian.Packmann@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:40:35 +0100
Axel Dörfler:
Christian Packmann <Christian.Packmann@xxxxxx> wrote:
Now that the driver is installed, a 'rescan' does seem to work as
intended; using the
same install script, changes in the driver code are recognized when
it's next opened.
Actually, the kernel now uses node monitoring to detect driver updates;
"rescan" should be a no op.
Oh. The transcript of your presentation at WalterCon 2006 indicated that rescan was supposed to be used.
If the driver has not been detected on first try, there obviously is a
bug when it comes to new files/directories vs. old ones.
If you have a reproducible test case, feel free to file a bug report
about it, preferred with a patch ;-)
I'll look into this.
BTW the code for the legacy driver support is in src/system/kernel/
device_manager/legacy_drivers.*
Uhm, what is the distinction for "legacy driver"? I modeled my new driver after poke
because I thought it would use any new model, being in the Haiku repo. Is there any driver which is
a.) simple and b.) a good representation of "how it shall be done"?
Christian
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