[PRJ007] tty over TCP driver needed

Candida lopez c.rodrigu at rcn.com
Thu Oct 18 14:37:49 UTC 2007


On Thursday 18 October 2007 08:53, David Glandon wrote:

I been reading the this thread and I find something that I do not understand, 
this is going to be tty -> ppe ->TCP 

can you use the modem controls to quench the data (if not can be something 
like xon/xoff in software instead) 

> I would be interested in observing this driver and offering any
> assistance that I can.  I've not previously worked on the linux kernel
> but feel comfortable with OS concepts and would like to get my hands
> dirty in the near future.
>
> On 10/18/07, David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:30 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Here's another driver that needs a developer.  Anyone want to work on
> > > it?  Let me know.
> >
> > I'd like to be involved.  I'd like to think that this can wind up as
> > some sort of part kernel/part userspace type of implementation though
> > that may not be entirely possible.  Hopefully there are other folks as
> > well as I don't have a tremendous amount of time to dedicate to it but I
> > do have quite a bit of serial and networking experience, and more
> > importantly, this sort of thing could be quite useful to me.
> >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > Summary:  tty over TCP driver
> > >
> > > Description:
> > >       A company has devices that are exposed over TCP to a local
> > >       machine as a "normal" tty serial port.  A driver needs to be
> > >       written for Linux to expose this kind of functionality to the
> > >       user so that standard serial programs can be used to control the
> > >       device.
> > >
> > > Estimated skills needed:
> > >       tty layer experience
> > >       TCP from within the kernel experience
> > >       This is not a good "first driver" type project, but should not
> > >       be that complex (with the exception of trying to understand the
> > >       tty layer, a currently moving target.)
> > >
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