From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 03:04:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 03:04:46 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-050-047.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.50.47]:52877 "EHLO pulsar.homelinux.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 03:04:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3E646091.6070004@pulsar.homelinux.net> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:15:13 +0100 From: Uwe Reimann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Direct access to parport X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'd like to connect some self made hardware to the parallel port and read the values of the dataline using linux. Can this be done in userspace or do I have to write kernel code to do so? I'm currently thinking of writing a device like lp, which in turn uses the parport device. Does this sound like a good idea? Regards, Uwe