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Hi there,

I thought a lot, wheather or not this thread belongs to this forum, hope I made the right choice.

So my question: Is there such thing like leaf driver in Linux, in correspondance to the Solaris nexus/leaf device driver tree?
I'm asking that in the context of writing a device driver for a custom hardware, which resides on a VME bus. I have a VME device driver for the 2.6.15 kernel working, and a device driver that was written for Solaris and I cannot understand wheather I should first write a leaf driver for the VME in order to communicate with my custom board under Linux.

Thanks for the attention.

Can someone please at least let me know wheather there is some connection between module stacking in Linux and the nexus/leaf driver scheme in Solaris?

Nothing is really mentioned while googling for linux leaf drivers. Given that "leaf driver" in Solaris context means :
I guess they should have something in common, but I'm not totally sure.
The following diagram also makes me think that they have some common patterns - Nexus and Leaf drivers information tree. Since noone can give expert opinion, so far, I'd suggest that you ask a specific mail list, for example, the distribution that you're aiming at, and its developers' mailing list.

First of all, thank you for responding @sysgate

I found out that "device (driver) model tree" in Linux context is the synonym collocation for "nexus and leaf drivers" in the context of Solaris.
There is also a correspondance of the /devices folder under Solaris and the sysfs under Linux, for describing the structure of the buses and devices present in the system.

I post this only as a closing statement, in the hope that it will be useful for someone who asks himself similar questions as I did.

P.S. Correct me if I'm defective on the above statements.