Re: user space device drivers

On May 13, 2013, at 9:52 PM, Gergely Buday <gbuday@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

I learned, e.g. from here that user space device drivers are indeed possible:

http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-2-sect-9

Are there serious user space drivers in Linux? Could you name a few?

Or, is this just for hacking a driver for your home-made hardware?

- Gergely

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Some are suggested in the ldd3 link, for example SANE (scsi scanner devices). http://www.sane-project.org/source.html You can find sources there. - Pietro