Re: Serial port over TCP/IP

Michael Buesch (freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de)
Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:39:00 +0200

On Sunday 06 April 2003 15:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> I keep thinking that it would be nice to have a mechanism for user space
> char devices; it would have to have a mechanism to pass all the ioctls
> to the process that dealt with it.

But wouldn't this make too much overhead, if implemented all in userspace?
I say this, because nbd is also implemented in user- und kernel-space.

Regards Michael Buesch. 

-- 
My homepage: http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft
fighting for peace is like fu**ing for virginity


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/