Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:46:03 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: Accessing serial device from within |
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:40:12PM +0100, Hansen Martin wrote: > I am writing a module, that will communicate with a device attached to the > serial port. > > How can I do that from inside a module, using the present uart driver? > I want to do something like finding and calling the read/write routine that > is called by the kernel when a process from user space accesses the > /dev/ttyS1. > > The reason I want to do it this way is that I don't want my module to only > fit one uart.
The question is, why do this in the kernel, when it is more easily handled in userspace?
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