Re: Char or Block Dirver?
Mike Kilburn (mike@conexio.co.za)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 21:25:53 +0200 (SAST)
> So what sort of a device driver should i go for?
> What I feel is that I can't write it as a network device driver.
> In Linux , all the i/f for n/w device driver goes thru
> tcp/ip layers and finally to the card. i want to write
> raw data to the card without the TCP/IP headers for testing
> (Otherwise that would have been the ideal option since this
> is a n/w card).
I use SOCK_PACKET to send/receive nice raw packets via my network driver.
This is in 2.0.x; check out net/ipv4/packet.c. Your data will go from
a user space socket right to dev_queue_xmit.
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