Wine device drivers proposal

[Evgeny F]

Damjan Jovanovic <dj015 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What "microdriver" are you talking about? Are you 
> working on STI? For STI, there is a convention for
> Windows 2000 and onwards, something like
> \\.\USBSCAN\... (check the STI documentation on MSDN).
> 
> If it's STI, I have some code; do you want it?
  
Yes, it is scanner microdriver.
>
> Yes, boundaries absolutely must be preserved, because
> USB bulk reads and writes occur in packets, not as
> streams. How are you going to extract packets from a  
> stream at the other end?

There are some new type of socket, present since 2.6.4 kernel described 
in unix(7) manual page - SOC_SEQPACKET, which is both 
connection-oriented and preserves message bounderies. Will it work for  
that purpose