Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 May 2013 11:39:06 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] New driver: Xillybus generic interface for FPGA (programmable logic) |
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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:53:39PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote: > This is the documentation for the Xillybus driver. It's intended for kernel > maintainers, since actual users will most likely rely on other documentation. > > It has turned out somewhat tricky to put Xillybus in one of the existing > categories of device drivers. I placed it under drivers/uio, mainly because it > shares the spirit of a generic driver allowing userspace programs to talk > directly with hardware. Unlike the classic UIO devices, Xillybus' char files > shouldn't be memory mapped, but rather used in the regular manner as streams > of data.
Because of that, this isn't a UIO driver at all. It doesn't use the UIO interfaces, so it shouldn't be in this directory, sorry.
thanks
greg k-h
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