Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

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To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, Tejun Heo <tj@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...>, <fuse-devel@...>
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 7:14 pm

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:05:55PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Hm, why? It's a "fake" serial port as it is just a pass-through to the
USB device. No flow control or line settings work on the device, so the
kernel driver just silently eats them. But there is old, closed source
software that wants to talk to a serial port, so the kernel driver
remains. With this code, we could then use the more modern libusb code
instead.

I guess you could hook it up through a pty, and somehow create
/dev/pilot/ for it as well, that is an idea to consider.

> The big problem with using ptys for serial port emulation is that they

For this type of USB device, that's not an issue :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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[ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 3:05 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Takashi Iwai, (Fri Aug 29, 6:40 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Tejun Heo, (Fri Aug 29, 6:47 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Aug 28, 4:01 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Nov 27, 4:59 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 27, 10:23 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Nov 28, 7:35 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Tejun Heo, (Fri Nov 28, 8:02 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Nov 28, 8:56 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Pavel Machek, (Tue Sep 2, 11:25 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 9:33 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Aug 29, 2:50 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Tejun Heo, (Fri Aug 29, 3:26 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Aug 29, 4:21 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Tejun Heo, (Fri Aug 29, 4:28 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Miklos Szeredi, (Fri Aug 29, 4:09 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Greg KH, (Thu Aug 28, 6:18 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Aug 28, 7:05 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Greg KH, (Thu Aug 28, 7:14 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Aug 28, 7:38 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE, Alan Cox, (Thu Aug 28, 7:32 pm)