From: van <van.wanless@eqware.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File I/O from within a drive
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:47:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2005525104755.652038@Oz> (raw)
> Your assumption that the driver should parse the media file structure
> is probably wrong. You should rather do as much as possible in a user
> space library. Pass a file name to a library call and have that
> work with all the complex parts of the file format, then define an
> ioctl interface for the driver on a relatively low level.
I think this is probably the bit of insight I was looking for; when it looks what what you need to do is wrong, you probably don't need to do that.
In fact, right now I am implementing a simple write() interface as a starting point. Later on I will be wanting to used mmap()ed buffers anyway, and at that point the application (or some app-level library) will *absolutely* have to be able to parse frames out of the media file.
Thanks, all.
--Van Wanless
EQware Engineering, Inc.
van.wanless@eqware.net
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