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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface
    Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    >> cat /dev/proxyctrl # what is the offset?
    >> echo 2 > /dev/proxyctrl # set offset to 2
    >
    > You have language bindings right there in bash for this api, what you
    > are saying is that you don't want to write new syscall bindings for new
    > languages, which is fine, don't do that, use the ones we already have
    > for the vast number of different IPC types.

    You are correct. There very much is a protocol in use. Just as
    there is for setting ip_forward in /proc. And from your previous
    comment, it doesn't have to be ASCII. It could be binary or XML.

    >
    > What is your specific requirements, I see you couch them in terms of
    > what you have created, but none in terms of actual requirements with no
    > specific implementation.

    You are correct. I have been giving them in terms of my goal. The
    title still captures it: "a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like
    interface".

    I am not a kernel programmer. I am an Electrical Engineer trying to
    control a robot. So I don't know what you mean by "actual requirements"
    or a "specific implementation". If you point me at a working example
    I'll be happy to try to provide these.

    >
    > And all of my other outstanding questions still remain, please address
    > those as well.
    Yes, understood.


    Greg, once again let me thank you for your patience while dealing
    with an EE (who probably needs more adult supervision).

    thanks
    Bob Smith



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