1. 09 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace · 151060ac
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      CUSE enables implementing character devices in userspace.  With recent
      additions of ioctl and poll support, FUSE already has most of what's
      necessary to implement character devices.  All CUSE has to do is
      bonding all those components - FUSE, chardev and the driver model -
      nicely.
      
      When client opens /dev/cuse, kernel starts conversation with
      CUSE_INIT.  The client tells CUSE which device it wants to create.  As
      the previous patch made fuse_file usable without associated
      fuse_inode, CUSE doesn't create super block or inodes.  It attaches
      fuse_file to cdev file->private_data during open and set ff->fi to
      NULL.  The rest of the operation is almost identical to FUSE direct IO
      case.
      
      Each CUSE device has a corresponding directory /sys/class/cuse/DEVNAME
      (which is symlink to /sys/devices/virtual/class/DEVNAME if
      SYSFS_DEPRECATED is turned off) which hosts "waiting" and "abort"
      among other things.  Those two files have the same meaning as the FUSE
      control files.
      
      The only notable lacking feature compared to in-kernel implementation
      is mmap support.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      151060ac
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