writing usb and mouse device driver.

shinde_amit001 · 03-25-2010, 04:37 AM

I am writing usb device driver and i want some help.
OS that i am using is suse10.2 i am also parallely trying on fedora9. If i write down complete usb driver that is mentioned in your documents, what are the extra things that i need to do apart from inserting that module in to kernel (insmod).If i insert my usb driver module in to kernel how can we stop kernel from using previous usb driver and now kernel should use the driver(module) that i have inserted.
Similarly i have also written mouse device driver for ps2 mouse.But i faced the simiar problem.How we should tell to kernel that dont use previous driver for mouse use that i have inserted.
Please Help Me.If i could get way for this i will be able to run both the drivers.

evo2 · 03-25-2010, 04:49 AM

Have you tried simply blacklisting the drivers you don't want to load?

Evo2.

shinde_amit001 · 03-25-2010, 07:36 AM

i dont know what is this and how to do that. can u please elaborate it.

evo2 · 03-25-2010, 05:45 PM

On a Debian based system you would do this by:

Code:

echo "blacklist somemodule" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

And for documentation:

Code:

man modprobe.conf

Evo2.