hi, is there any good document describe how to develop a good network device driver? i am reading the rtl8139 souce code in linux, but there's a lot of things i can not understand. please give me some help. thanks
The archetypal book is the O'Reilly published Linux Device Drivers (Corbett, Rubini, and Kroah-Hartman). I've got the 3rd edition on my bookshelf these days, there's a horse on the cover.
There's a 50 page long network device drivers chapter that should cover what you need. Fair warning, though, the book is severely dense and chewy; you'll have to have read a whole lot of the stuff that comes before it in order for that chapter to make any sense.
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To the OP: The first document you need is the data sheet (and application notes) of the interface chip(s).
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