On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:39:35PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > Hello > > I have a serial port accesible via Ehtercat. > http://www.beckhoff.dk/english.asp?ethercat/el6001.htm > > Ethercat is a fancy way of accessing i/o devices via ethernet. You can > read/write registers with close to real-time restrictions. > > Nowadays there is a kernel land implementation of ethercat master, but > it is not merged (and it is definately not an easy job). And a > software implementation http://fh-soft.de/src/ethercat-userspace.html Why not attempt to merge it? > My hope is that there is something like uinput, but for serial > devices,i.e. I make a userland program that looks like a normal serial > device to the other applications. A serial device that does what exactly? What's wrong with the "normal" serial userspace api the kernel provides? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
