Re: User Space Emulation of Devices

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
12 Sep 2001 15:14:57 -0700


Followup to: <20010912214444Z271795-760+12170@vger.kernel.org>
By author: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> How do you pass an ioctl ? If any parameter is a pointer you actually need a
> complex protocol for passing memory content to make it useful.
>

You need a parameter marshalling system; however, they do exist. It
might actually be that the best way to deal with this is to make a
general module framework and compile a specific module to marshall the
parameters of the device you want to emulate.

-hpa

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