From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:53:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:53:39 -0400 Received: from static24-72-34-179.reverse.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.34.179]:31701 "HELO zed.dlitz.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:53:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:53:50 -0600 From: "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" To: Phil Thompson Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: User Space Emulation of Devices Message-ID: <20010912215350.B2866@zed.dlitz.net> In-Reply-To: <54045BFDAD47D5118A850002A5095CC30AC57D@exchange1.cam.pace.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54045BFDAD47D5118A850002A5095CC30AC57D@exchange1.cam.pace.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Homepage: http://www.dlitz.net/ X-Spam-Policy-URL: http://www.dlitz.net/go/spamoff.shtml X-PGP-Public-Key-URL: http://www.dlitz.net/gpgkey2.asc X-PGP-ID: 0xE272C3C3 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9413 0BD2 1030 070E 301E 594F F998 B6D8 E272 C3C3 X-Operating-System: Debian testing/unstable GNU/Linux zed 2.4.8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:25:08AM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote: > Without going into the gory details, I have a requirement for a device > driver that does very little apart from pass on the open/close/read/write > "requests" onto a user space application to implement and pass back to the > driver. >=20 > Does anything like this already exist? I think the HURD does something like this. I can't say any more than that, since I haven't actually run it yet. :-) --=20 Dwayne C. Litzenberger - dlitz@dlitz.net --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjugLc4ACgkQ+Zi22OJyw8M4igCgnLTS11DJDF0yeXDLY4bNLauD 0TQAnjEE9aFSyyw5BRPu73HrnWYHETDo =p/X5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r--