> The solution is to create a user space tool inside the > drivers/net/ipa directory that will link with the kernel > source files and will perform all the basic one-time checks > I want to make.
Hi Alex Have you found any other driver doing this? Where do they keep there code? Could this be a selftest, put somewhere in tools/testing/selftests. Or can this be a test kernel module. Eg. we have crypt/testmsg.c which runs a number of tests on the crypto subsystem, ./kernel/time/test_udelay.c which runs times on udelay. Rather than inventing something new, please follow other examples already in the kernel. Andrew