Re: Question regarding driver developement

2001-01-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
> The only way I have found so far is to write have two FIFO buffers in the > driver (in and out) and use a daemon running in user space to manage the > disk access. Have you thought about using mmap and raw-io? * the kernel driver allocates a fifo (probably a ring?) buffer. The driver implemen

Question regarding driver developement

2001-01-11 Thread Anders Johansson
Hi I am very sorry for disturbing the kernel development with this question which I suspect might be off topic. If I am totally off topic please tell me where to find help in your flame mails. I am developing a device driver (will be GPL) for a PCI board hosting two Digital Signal Processors (DS