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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] doc: Add documentation for the User Mode Driver management library
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 03:52:40PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> +The `UMD Manager` is the frontend interface to any user or
> +kernel-originated request. It invokes the `UMD Loader` to start the
> +`UMD Handler`, and communicates with the latter to satisfy the request.
> +
> +The `UMD Loader` is merely responsible to extract the `user binary` from
> +the kernel module, copy it to a tmpfs filesystem, fork the current process,
> +start the `UMD Handler`, and create a pipe for the communication between
> +the `UMD Manager` and the `UMD Handler`.
> +
> +The `UMD Handler` reads requests from the `UMD Manager`, processes them
> +internally, and sends the response to it.

I think you can write out the full forms (UMD manager, UMD loader, and
UMD handler) once and for subsequent mentions of these, UMD can be
omitted, since the manager/loader/handler will obviously refers to the
UMD one.

Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

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