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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 1/4] uio: add ioctl support
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 03:41:41PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
>
>
> On 10/07/15 22:51, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> >I was thinking of not naming it uio at all
> >
>
> U mean doing something completely orthogonal to UIO? And how did u thing to
> access bars? With UIO or implement this functionality in the new configfs
> too?
> If yes - then it will essentially be UIO with MSI-X support, won't it? ;)
> It'll also be the third user-space drivers infrastructure and I'm not sure
> there is enough motivation add it.
> Note that "some on this thread" are claiming that even two is too many... ;)

Let's wait to see what happens here, I talked to Stephen and I think
that a non-UIO driver might be the correct solution here. At the very
least, the proposed patches are not acceptable, so it can't be any worse
:)

greg k-h


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