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This is a port of the Advantech driver to modern (>=3.19) kernels. As such,
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it should be noted that this driver comes with absolutely no warranty.
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Furthermore, I have given no consideration to support for older kernels, nor
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has this been thoroughly tested. If it builds, consider yourself lucky.
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I'll be adding further notes here as I get more things working. Long term,
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I'd like to see this code cleaned up and merged into the standard `8250`
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serial driver from which it forked (a long time ago by the looks of things).
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Building procedures, get your kernel sources prepared (`make menuconfig`,
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followed by perhaps `make bzImage modules` or maybe `make modules_prepare`),
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then in the kernel source tree, run:
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```
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$ make modules M=/path/to/adv950/driver
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```
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With luck, you should find a `adv950.ko` file in `/path/to/adv950/driver`.
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Create the directory `/lib/modules/$( uname -r )/extra` and plop that `.ko`
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file in it, then run `depmod -a` on the device. Fingers crossed, you should
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be able to `modprobe` the driver at boot and it should work.
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-- Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au>
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The original README is below.
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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=============================================================================
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ADVANTECH industrial comunication cards device driver
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Installation Guide
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