[etherlab-dev] etherlab-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7

Florian Pose fp at igh-essen.com
Fri Jun 27 11:59:19 CEST 2008


Hi,

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:39:22PM -0700, Bidkar, Pavan wrote:
> When I am going through the EtherCAT code, I fond that there is no
> main() function, that means there is no entry point for master?
> 
> Can you please suggest me how this is done, and how Kernel recognizes
> the driver and starts it?

as the documentation and the website state, the master is implemented as
a Linux kernel module. I suggest, you take a closer look on the below
sources at first:

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
http://www.google.de/search?q=linux+kernel+modules

-- 
Best regards,
Florian Pose

http://etherlab.org



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