Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28T23:06:38Z

Greg KH wrote:
>
> Independant of that, I can see a number of uses for the CUSE code. One
> would be emulating /dev/pilot for old palm pilot software that things it
> wants to talk to a serial port, yet really a libusb userspace program
> can handle all of the data to the USB device instead.
>

I think that's probably another bad example... I would think serial port
emulation would be better handled by ptys, and/or a specific serial port
emulation module.

The big problem with using ptys for serial port emulation is that they
currently don't handle BREAK at all.

-hpa