On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:30 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Here's another driver that needs a developer. Anyone want to work on > it? Let me know. I'd like to be involved. I'd like to think that this can wind up as some sort of part kernel/part userspace type of implementation though that may not be entirely possible. Hopefully there are other folks as well as I don't have a tremendous amount of time to dedicate to it but I do have quite a bit of serial and networking experience, and more importantly, this sort of thing could be quite useful to me. > ------------------ > > Summary: tty over TCP driver > > Description: > A company has devices that are exposed over TCP to a local > machine as a "normal" tty serial port. A driver needs to be > written for Linux to expose this kind of functionality to the > user so that standard serial programs can be used to control the > device. > > Estimated skills needed: > tty layer experience > TCP from within the kernel experience > This is not a good "first driver" type project, but should not > be that complex (with the exception of trying to understand the > tty layer, a currently moving target.) > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel at linuxdriverproject.org > http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
