Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:03:28 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] uio: add ioctl support |
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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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