Re: Registering USB Driver With Hotplug ?

[Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, ashish mahamuni wrote:

> Hi All,
> I have written a usb driver for my pen drive.
> I can compile .ko file for my kernel successfully.
> But I don't know how to install it. OR we can say, how
> to  register this .ko with hotplug system.

You have to make your module known to the kernel build system.

> Also, whenever I insert my pen drive default driver
> gets loaded.. I want to stop this feature also..

That's easy.  Don't build the default driver.

> How should I test my driver?
> Please give me step by step information for installing
> and testing my module..

There are instructions in the book Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition.  
It is freely available online.

Alan Stern


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