Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760642AbZANO3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:29:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754654AbZANO3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:29:13 -0500 Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:58491 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754563AbZANO3M (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:29:12 -0500 Message-ID: <496DF66B.3050609@dawes.za.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:27:55 +0200 From: Rogan Dawes User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philippe De Muyter Cc: Xavier Bestel , Tomasz Chmielewski , LKML Subject: Re: linux kernel without file system References: <496DA678.1090701@wpkg.org> <20090114093422.GA9771@frolo.macqel> <1231926744.11907.12.camel@skunk> <20090114101828.GA15141@frolo.macqel> In-Reply-To: <20090114101828.GA15141@frolo.macqel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 21 Philippe De Muyter wrote: > Keeping thinking about it, I now think that my 'application program' > (basically a serial-to-ethernet converter) should be a kernel thread, > because of the small memory constraints. > > The question is thus how to access the serial lines from a kernel thread. > > Philippe If your constraints are that severe, perhaps you should be investigating other solutions. e.g. eCos? Linux doesn't ALWAYS have to be the answer :-) Rogan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/