From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial port over TCP/IP
Date: 6 Apr 2003 19:37:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6qoa5$edn$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200304061447.46393.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de
Followup to: <200304061447.46393.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de>
By author: Michael Buesch <freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Is it possible to make a char-dev (a serial device ttyS0)
> available via TCP/IP on a network like it is possible
> for block-devices like a harddisk via nbd?
> Is kernel-support for this present?
> If not, is it technically possible to develop such a driver?
>
I think what you need is the enhanced pty driver patch which was
posted recently, which made is possible for a user-space process to
also capture ioctls() such as baud rate setting etc. Then the rest of
the work can be done in userspace.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-07 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-06 12:47 Serial port over TCP/IP Michael Buesch
2003-04-06 13:11 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-06 13:39 ` Michael Buesch
2003-04-06 13:46 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-06 13:35 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2003-04-06 13:41 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <200304062247.45525.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de>
[not found] ` <20030406161206.A12616@uph.com>
2003-04-06 21:30 ` Michael Buesch
2003-04-07 2:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-04-07 14:53 ` Michael Buesch
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