From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 02:59:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 02:58:59 -0400 Received: from violet.setuza.cz ([194.149.118.97]:55559 "EHLO violet.setuza.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 02:58:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Serial port- Linux kernel From: Frank Schaefer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 03 May 2002 08:58:56 +0200 Message-Id: <1020409136.272.0.camel@ADMIN> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 16:50, antonelloderosa@inwind.it wrote: > I must control the serial port at kernel level, because I have to make several measurements of one-way delay between a source and a destination host, so while I set the DTR on the source host when I send the UDP packet, the destination host must be able to set by itself the RTS when it receives the packet. > > I'm quite a beginner in Linux-kernel, so may you help me more? > > Thanks again > > Antonello > > - > 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/ > Hi Antonello, if you're new to the kernel ( like me :o), you could take Rubini & Corbets ``Linux Device Drivers'' book, and write a special driver for your problem. That could be a nice task for learning the kernel. I did something similar, programming a little parport-LED-lightshow. Your real and my artificial problem enlightenes one in driver, module, kernel and user-space / kernel-space relations, and is ( thus ) a fine task to start with. Regards Frank PS: Many thanks to Alessandro and Jonathan for this fine collection of paper.