From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756820AbXFUOri (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:47:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753508AbXFUOrb (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:47:31 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:42149 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753300AbXFUOra (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:47:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Writing a driver for a legacy serial device From: David Woodhouse To: Jean Delvare Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , LKML , Vojtech Pavlik In-Reply-To: <20070621113358.1d65678d@hyperion.delvare> References: <20070619190502.05d4e0c8@hyperion.delvare> <20070620105648.6d18ad66@hyperion.delvare> <200706202311.33326.dtor@insightbb.com> <20070621113358.1d65678d@hyperion.delvare> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:47:12 +0800 Message-Id: <1182437233.2782.36.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 (2.10.2-2.fc7.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 11:33 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > OK. This leads me to a question: is it OK for me to add support for my > non-input device to inputattach, or is a separate, dedicated helper > tool preferred? Both ways are fine with me, I don't know what the > input subsystem maintainers expect. You might do better to implement it as a line discipline instead. Or just do it in userspace. What exactly are you trying to do? -- dwmw2