From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031345Ab3HIWUb (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2013 18:20:31 -0400 Received: from 70-36-212-23.dsl.static.sonic.net ([70.36.212.23]:45387 "EHLO mail.linuxtoys.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031204Ab3HIWUa (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2013 18:20:30 -0400 Message-ID: <52056B30.3020003@linuxtoys.org> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:20:32 -0700 From: Bob Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 SeaMonkey/2.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface References: <20130804231958.GA25418@kroah.com> <52003958.7080103@linuxtoys.org> <20130806094604.GE27889@kroah.com> <520299AB.1020607@linuxtoys.org> <20130807192714.GC2708@kroah.com> <5202A284.7010106@linuxtoys.org> <20130807195427.GB4121@kroah.com> <5202B674.7060005@linuxtoys.org> <20130807213325.GB5373@kroah.com> <52040C3A.9090708@linuxtoys.org> <20130809215231.GA21756@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130809215231.GA21756@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:23:06PM -0700, Bob Smith wrote: >> Greg >> I'll reply again to this message but for now let me try >> another explanation that does not mention sysfs, procfs, or >> device drivers. This is probably how I should have started. > > I fail to understand how you will use this code to write a "userspace > device driver" at all. I just sent a message that cover userspace drivers. Basically, if you think userspace driver can exist, then you probably need something like this proxy driver. thanks Bob Smith