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Hello, I am trying to create a driver for a particular filesystem format(FATX) because one does not exist natively for linux. So my question is this. I know the format the file system is in, but how do i make a driver for it? I mean, i want people to be able to do, for example
'sudo apt-get install fatx'
And then it downloads the driver, and bam, they can read the fatx file system? What steps would i have to take to accomplish this?
Do you already have the kernel module written? If so then you must follow the debian policy manual before it will be accepted into any of the debian repositories.
apt-get and tools alike are used for user space packages and NOT for kernel space modules (drivers). If at all you plan to write your driver, you could write the driver and test it and release it to the kernel groups (maintaiiners), they could take the same and incorporate in the main kernel if they find it good.
OR
Write the driver and release the source code. Tell people against which version of linux you have compiled. Needed users can download the source files and build the module with the command
make -C /usr/src/`uname -r` SUBDIRS=$PWD modules
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