On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:37:00AM -0400, David Hollis wrote: > > 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. > > > > ------------------ > > > > 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. > > > 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. I'd like to be "in the loop" on this one too. FWIW, I have an IOLAN terminal server in my server cabinet downstairs that implements exactly this type of functionality. John -- John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
