Re: serio interface

[Lars K.W. Gohlke]

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Jan-Benedict Glaw schrieb:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 11:34:49 +0200, Lars K.W. Gohlke <lkwg82@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jan-Benedict Glaw schrieb:
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 11:11:23 +0200, Lars K.W. Gohlke <lkwg82@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > wouldsomebody explain me the serio interface or give me a code link for
> > > > very simple example.
> > > What do you want to do with it?  Do you want on the serial port side,
> > > or on the mouse/keyboard/gadget side?  See for example the various
> > > serial keyboards and mice drivers.
> > I want on the kernelside process data from first uart-hardware interface
> > aka ttyS0.
> >
> > I don't understand the structure of e.g. input/mouse/sermouse.c
> >
> > where is said, which hardware is used for reading data from?
>
> I'm not entirely sure, but I guess that most of the time, you assign a
> serial port with the help of `inputattach' to a given device driver,
> which expects to find its hardware on that port.
>
> OTOH, why do you want to do the serial stuff in kernel land? Isn't it
> a *lot* easier to do it in userspace? What's your specific device you
> want to work on?
>
> MfG, JBG

if you want to write a driver, there must be a possibility to get the
data, like others do. (kernel-space)

I want to know where I can get and how to do.

At least I want to be able to copy the data from device to another
(maybe own).

It is to get familiar with that.

thx
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