Re: Repeater for the console client

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Yesterday, 22 hours, 39 minutes, 57 seconds ago, Marco Gerards wrote:
> 2) Using netfs to create /dev/console/ (the path is configurable, of
>    course) in which translators can be stored.  This requires a change
>    to the console client.  In that case the console client sets up the
>    /dev/console/ translator and drivers can use some special function
>    to set up a translator in that directory.

Adding support functions to the console client itself sounds like a good
idea:  the console client would provide a simple API (maybe even simpler
than that of libtrivfs) that could be used by its drivers that need to
communicate to the outside world via the filesystem.  Typically drivers
would just need to define a `read' and a `write' function and pass
pointers to them as well as a preferred node name to `console-client'.

Ludovic.