From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 24 18:22:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15568 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:22:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldyeller.comtest.com (comtest.hits.net [206.127.244.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15535 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Received: from graphics.comtest.com (graphics.comtest.com [206.127.245.194]) by oldyeller.comtest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA23786; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:02:07 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Message-Id: <199807230102.PAA23786@oldyeller.comtest.com> From: "Randal S. Masutani" Organization: ComTest Technologies, Inc. To: john@ece.arizona.edu (John Galbraith) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:55:55 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: new GPIB driver Reply-to: randal@comtest.com CC: dufault@hda.com, mike@smith.net.au, FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199807222331.QAA10025@burdell.ece.arizona.edu> References: <199807221926.JAA23230@oldyeller.comtest.com> (randal@comtest.com) X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 22 Jul 98, at 16:31, John Galbraith wrote: > OK, but if he signed a NDA, we can't exactly use that info in the > driver, and distribute it all over the planet. At least not according > to the agreement. If he wants to give me or you the information, it > seems to be a legal risk (and rightly so) for your customer. Yes, you are right. I didn't say that. Nobody heard that. > It just struck me that I could have the lower minor numbers work like > Fred's driver, and some upper number (like 32) to be the main special > file that you would open when you just wanted to dump data directly to > a specific device. Not a big deal for now, though. Right now, I > haven't even implemented write() and read(), other than to return the > "system call not implemented" error. So what exaclty do you have implemented? What functions do you have in ioctl()? Randal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message