From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: Writing a driver for a legacy serial device
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:31:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706220131.08954.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070621203843.044fd19a@hyperion.delvare>
On Thursday 21 June 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I2C bus drivers have to be implemented in the kernel, so user-space
> isn't an option for me.
Well, you could have an i2c_algorithm that exports a character device
node to user space, and then have a trivial user application that
simply relays between that and the serial port.
It's probably not much different to what you have in the end though.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-21 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-19 17:05 Writing a driver for a legacy serial device Jean Delvare
2007-06-19 18:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-20 8:56 ` Jean Delvare
2007-06-21 3:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-21 9:33 ` Jean Delvare
2007-06-21 14:47 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-21 18:38 ` Jean Delvare
2007-06-21 23:31 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-06-22 19:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-23 8:34 ` Jean Delvare
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