Matthew Dillon <dil...@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> This seems like an unnecessary complication to me. It would be
> easier to simply make it a device that you can open(), read(), and
> write() as I first suggested.
>
> MFS is not a good template for any of this. MFS is very, very simple
> and the pieces that would make a user-level device driver work are
> considerably more complex because they require the ability to make
> information available to a user process that is usually available only
> to the kernel. MFS makes no progress to this end, because MFS runs
> (more or less permanently) in supervisor mode.
>
> -Matt
I'll defer to you on this as I never got far enough into this
project to have discovered all the complications.
--John
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