From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758337AbYH1XGi (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:06:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754906AbYH1XGU (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:06:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58468 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754819AbYH1XGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:06:18 -0400 Message-ID: <48B72F53.9080109@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:55 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Adrian Bunk , Tejun Heo , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Miklos Szeredi , Takashi Iwai , fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE References: <48B6F711.1040604@kernel.org> <20080828200120.GA16462@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080828221828.GB2855@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20080828221828.GB2855@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > > Independant of that, I can see a number of uses for the CUSE code. One > would be emulating /dev/pilot for old palm pilot software that things it > wants to talk to a serial port, yet really a libusb userspace program > can handle all of the data to the USB device instead. > I think that's probably another bad example... I would think serial port emulation would be better handled by ptys, and/or a specific serial port emulation module. The big problem with using ptys for serial port emulation is that they currently don't handle BREAK at all. -hpa