Messages in this thread | | | From | Jan Kasprzak <> | Subject | Re: Sharing ioctls between char and net device | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 1998 15:08:14 +0200 (CEST) |
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: > device or as the network interface. I have written an user-space utility : > for downloading firmware, resetting the card, querying the hardware : > type etc. I would like to allow this user-space utility work both : > via the ioctl on the character device and via the ioctl on the : > network socket. : : Is it a char device for the purposes of being a serial port or just for being : able to control it ? : At present it serves for control purposes only (downloading the firmware, etc), but I want to extend it to a generic character device (probably not a tty device, but a plain character device).
: If its solely for control and command then the wanrouter layer has a notion : of this already putting things in /proc files.
Do you mean something like this?
cat fimware0123.bin >/proc/mydev/firmware echo start_firmware 0x0400 >/proc/mydev/command
It sounds interesting, but I don't think I want yet another controlling interface.
Another option (needing a big rewrite of my driver) is to make a syncppp/hdlc layer working as some kind of a "line discipline" over a generic character device.
-Yenya
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