Migrating Device Drivers to the 2.6 Kernel

An anonymous reader writes "While it's all well and good to find out how to upgrade your kernel to 2.6, as this recent /. story pointed out, developers, especially device driver developers, might be more interested in the kernel's new device driver model. Over at Linux Devices, there's a new article on Migrating device drivers to Linux kernel 2.6. The short version: That little ole Hello, World! kernel module is a heckuva lot more complicated than it used to be."

Comments

I don't understand

[BigBuckHunter]

I run Gentoo and choosing to run 2.6 hasn't "broken" any of the 2.4 style modules that I use. ALSA still works, my NVidia driver still works (I needed the minion.de mod for a few of the releases). Is anyone able to point me to a module that broke between 2.4 and 2.6 that wasn't fixed with a three line patch?

BBH

HTML in modules

[caluml]

#include img src="/files/misc/lt.gif">linux/module.h>
#include img src="/files/misc/lt.gif">linux/config.h>
#include img src="/files/misc/lt.gif">linux/init.h>

Wo w - now modules come with a little icon built into the module? All this gui stuff is going way too far :)<br>
Don't they know about &lt; on that site anyway?