Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:15:43 +0000 | From | Alan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver |
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> there as "protocols" for user-tty interfaces, i.e., you need a user, that > opens a tty, sets a line discipline to it, and does io (read/write) over > it, and NOT to be completely initialised and driven from the kernel.
Take a look at the SLIP driver. User space sets up the port but all the actual I/O is to/from the kernel not via user space. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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