On Thursday 18 October 2007 08:53, David Glandon wrote: I been reading the this thread and I find something that I do not understand, this is going to be tty -> ppe ->TCP can you use the modem controls to quench the data (if not can be something like xon/xoff in software instead) > I would be interested in observing this driver and offering any > assistance that I can. I've not previously worked on the linux kernel > but feel comfortable with OS concepts and would like to get my hands > dirty in the near future. > > On 10/18/07, David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com> 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. > > > > 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> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list > > devel at linuxdriverproject.org > > http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
