Re: Discovering select(2) parameters from driver's poll method

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Fri Jun 09 2006 - 19:40:13 EST


Ozan Eren Bilgen <oebilgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree you, but your assumption is correct for a generic device, not
> mine. The purpose of my driver is slightly different and is not to
> realize user space request, like other drivers in Linux kernel do. My
> goal is to forward the userspace system call to a remote computer, and
> therefore I need information about these variables in order to call them
> correctly via an user space application on the remote host.

In that case, this is /not/ a device... The "If it waddles like a duck, and
quacks like a duck, it is (probably) a duck" can be turned around...
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