Hello all,

I am writing a simple program in C++ that interfaces with the QCA7000 chip. There is already a driver available on Linux for using this chip. I have a couple of questions regarding the use of the driver.

1) For loading the driver into the kernel, what are the cases for when I should use init_module and finit_module()? FOr this specific module, would I want to use init_module function call?

2) I found the source code for the driver and there are a number of functions available for the driver (GitHub source). After I initialize the module, how do I access the functions? Or are there standard Linux kernel functions that I am suppose to call that will interface to the driver for me? I have been looking for awhile on this matter and it is unclear how I utilize the driver in an application. For windows, I would do a DLL call. Is there something similar to Linux that I would do?

I should also note that I have a compiled driver installed called qca_7k_common. For the rest of the parts, I may need to manually install the driver by compiling the source which I don't think this part will be an issue for me.

1) Use init_module or finit_module if you are not planning on using modprobe or insmod and want to rewrite them yourself.

2) A network device driver creates a network device. From user space you could use the ip command to configure it, bring it up, and route packets through it. Or you could let network manager do all that for you.

Rather than build an external driver, you could build your kernel with QUALCOMM support enabled. The driver is in the tree.