From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261693AbTDFN2I (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 09:28:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262879AbTDFN2I (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 09:28:08 -0400 Received: from smtp01.web.de ([217.72.192.180]:1039 "EHLO smtp.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261693AbTDFN2H (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 09:28:07 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Subject: Re: Serial port over TCP/IP Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:39:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200304061447.46393.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de> <20030406131132.GJ639@gallifrey> In-Reply-To: <20030406131132.GJ639@gallifrey> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304061539.00494.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 06 April 2003 15:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > I keep thinking that it would be nice to have a mechanism for user space > char devices; it would have to have a mechanism to pass all the ioctls > to the process that dealt with it. But wouldn't this make too much overhead, if implemented all in userspace? I say this, because nbd is also implemented in user- und kernel-space. Regards Michael Buesch. -- My homepage: http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft fighting for peace is like fu**ing for virginity