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 17:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:33:02 -0400 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:7940 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:32:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20010912122826.A6153@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:28:26 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Phil Thompson , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: User Space Emulation of Devices In-Reply-To: <54045BFDAD47D5118A850002A5095CC30AC57D@exchange1.cam.pace.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <54045BFDAD47D5118A850002A5095CC30AC57D@exchange1.cam.pace.co.uk>; from Phil Thompson on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:25:08AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > 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. > > Does anything like this already exist? Something like that which would also pass ioctl()s would be *very* welcome. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org