bs.o

Good evening and happy new year to you all.

I thought I'd just mention that I have quickly written a driver that
converts a block device into a serial device - like the "raw" driver
much much simpler.  But this device also passes ioctls across to the
bound block device, as well as read/writes, and does not require
aligned read/write, so standard applications work without change.

It's available at

  ftp://oboe.it.uc3m.es/pub/Programs/bs-1.0.tgz

Yes, the driver is called "bs"!

My intention was to use it to bind a serial device to enbd, and use it
as an audio device for he xawtv on my server, so that I can pass the
audio over the net via enbd to my portable - the picture travels fine
via X across the wireless net, but the audio stays where it is at
present :(.

Well, now I just have to make a little modificaton to the enbd-server
to allow it to be happy opening a serial (audio) device as resource,
and everyone will be happy. Or else I can write a driver that presents a
serial device as a block device - that might even be easier.

Anyway, if anyone wants to play with it, the above is where it is. It
needs porting to 2.6 from 2.4, and improving in many ways. I'll start a
page for it on sourceforge.

Peter