Please help, does RHEL support user space drivers?

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Please forgive me for being impatient. I have a 3:30EDT (19:30UTC) meeting today where it's important to know the answer. I haven't been able to find the answer through my searches.

Does the latest version of RHEL support user space drivers? I may need a user space character driver. My research suggests that in other versions of linux, this is associated with a set of patches nicknamed CUSE. [EDIT: Or maybe it's an lkm FUSE with CUSE extension. Doc is hard to come by.]

More details about my usage appear at:
https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3457101

Thanks VERY much,
Helmut

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ping... any thoughts?

Had never heard of this, but:

# grep CUSE /boot/config-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 
CONFIG_CUSE=m

I've loaded third-party FUSE modules before (sshfs) and that worked fine.

So if you have a userspace character driver which follows the CUSE API, it should work too.

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