I am trying to develop a device-driver to sit above the standard serial port -
in other
words, multiple processes can communicate with the driver which will translate
the
information into the required serial datastream for the device. (This could be
written
as a separate daemon-type process, I know, but as a kernel driver it will fit
into the
scheme of our system in a much neater way).
I haven't found any other drivers in the kernel which quite do what I want, and
I don't
particularly want to make a copy of the entire serial driver code and put the
mods into
that (seems like a waste of space). Essentially, what I need is to have a
relatively
simple driver which just calls the standard serial port routines to send/receive
data.
Has this been done before, and does anyone have any sample code or hints as to
what I
need to do? We are using kernel 2.2.16 (from RedHat-7.0).
Regards,
Wayne
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Wayne Price [email protected] Acropolis Solutions Ltd
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:42:47PM +0000, Wayne Price wrote:
>
> Has this been done before, and does anyone have any sample code or
> hints as to what I need to do? We are using kernel 2.2.16 (from
> RedHat-7.0).
You might want to take a look at the Axis Bluetooth stack for Linux
(http://www.axis.com). It lives above the serial driver and sounds like it
does what you are looking to do.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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