Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 06:15:14 EST


Alexander Viro wrote:
> > - Mapping the structure inherent to the USB messages to a flat
> > stream of bytes means the need for a parser in kernel space
>
> Erm? Even if you s/ioctl()/write()/?

Or indeed, sendto/recvfrom.

A USB tree is a little network, just like IRDA. The interface is there.
There are even good generic tools that work with it.

-- Jamie

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