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From: Greg KH <greg@wirex.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Pifko Krisztian <pifko@kirowski.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] philips rush usb support
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:23:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010226162354.F5492@wirex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102241730370.19866-100000@pifko.kirowski.com> <20010224121312.S16341@sventech.com> <20010225192454.A1697@bug.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20010225192454.A1697@bug.ucw.cz>; from pavel@suse.cz on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 07:24:54PM +0100

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 07:24:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Userspace stuff should be found at http://openrush.sourceforge.net
> > > if you have a rush. It works for me on ia32 with the model sa125.
> > 
> > Why can't the entire driver be in userspace? It appears it uses a
> > completely proprietary protocol and you've created a completely
> > proprietary interface to the kernel.
> 
> Would not making it "usb-serial" device do the trick?

That would work if you don't want to use a new minor number for the
device.  But all of the current usb-serial drivers are there because
userspace tools expect the device to act just like a serial port.  Since
the userspace tools for this device is closely tied to the driver, that
restriction isn't really there.

I also agree with Johannes, this would probably be better off as a
userspace program.

greg k-h

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-27  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-24 16:39 [PATCH] philips rush usb support Pifko Krisztian
2001-02-24 17:13 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-02-25 18:24   ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-27  0:23     ` Greg KH [this message]

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