Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2013 14:52:31 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface |
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:23:06PM -0700, Bob Smith wrote: > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:> > > You are mixing protocols and bindings and system calls up it seems. > > They are not the same at all. > > > How can you control a robot with this code? > > What do you want to do in order to control your robot? What are your > > needs in accessing the hardware? What hardware are you wanting to > > control? And why can't you just access that hardware through the normal > > kernel apis we have today? > > > Greg > I'll reply again to this message but for now let me try > another explanation that does not mention sysfs, procfs, or > device drivers. This is probably how I should have started.
I fail to understand how you will use this code to write a "userspace device driver" at all.
still confused,
greg k-h
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