From: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] Staging: vme: add VME userspace driver
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:05:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090810200526.GC3055@braap.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090810162826.GA27912@suse.de>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> > > Instead of using that we implemented a heretic IOCTL-based
> > > interface for user-space; at least with it you could create a
> > > driver (with no interrupt support) for a device in user-space.
>
> Why not just use the UIO interface instead of creating
> yet-another-kernel/user-api?
>
> Will that interface not work for what you want to use here?
Certainly. I didn't mean we'd like to see that merged. Currently
we make extensive use of IOCTLs because we are maintaining
kernel and user-space code for two platforms/OSes (ppc-lynx and
x86-linux), and not having access to lynx' source code doesn't
help. So IOCTLs are pretty much everywhere, much to my regret.
E.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-10 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-08-03 21:00 ` [patch 0/5] [ANNOUNCE] VME Bus drivers and framework for Linux Greg K-H
2009-08-03 21:01 ` [patch 1/5] Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel Greg K-H
2009-08-08 23:01 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-10 12:44 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-10 14:14 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-10 15:31 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-10 16:40 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-10 19:50 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 8:02 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 8:43 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-10 15:53 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-10 16:26 ` Shawn Bohrer
2009-08-10 19:38 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 8:29 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 14:49 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 15:10 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 15:36 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 15:41 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 15:42 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 16:38 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 20:48 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-12 9:54 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-12 9:59 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-12 10:09 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-12 10:19 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 4:54 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-11 7:48 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-10 16:30 ` Greg KH
2009-08-10 14:52 ` [PATCH] Staging: vme: fix {master,slave}_get check bug Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-10 16:50 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-03 21:01 ` [patch 2/5] Staging: vme: add VME userspace driver Greg K-H
2009-08-08 23:22 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-09 12:17 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-10 13:13 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-10 15:26 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-10 16:29 ` Greg KH
2009-08-10 16:30 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-10 20:36 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 9:03 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 9:40 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 12:46 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-11 21:01 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-12 8:17 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-12 9:39 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-12 9:57 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-12 11:20 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-12 12:19 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-10 16:28 ` Greg KH
2009-08-10 20:05 ` Emilio G. Cota [this message]
2009-08-10 21:09 ` Greg KH
2009-08-11 7:04 ` Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-03 21:01 ` [patch 3/5] Staging: vme: add Universe I/II bridge driver Greg K-H
2009-08-03 23:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-08-03 21:01 ` [patch 4/5] Staging: vme: add Tundra TSI148 VME-PCI Bridge driver Greg K-H
2009-08-03 22:50 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-08-03 22:55 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-08-05 16:33 ` [PATCH] Staging: Correct tsi-148 VME interrupt free routine Martyn Welch
2009-08-05 16:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Martyn Welch
2009-08-05 21:53 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-08-06 7:20 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-09 0:09 ` [patch 4/5] Staging: vme: add Tundra TSI148 VME-PCI Bridge driver Emilio G. Cota
2009-08-11 14:59 ` [patch 4/5] Staging: vme: add Tundra TSI148 VME-PCI Bridgedriver Martyn Welch
2009-08-03 21:01 ` [patch 5/5] Staging: vme: add TODO file Greg K-H
2009-08-04 7:56 ` [patch 0/5] [ANNOUNCE] VME Bus drivers and framework for Linux Martyn Welch
2009-08-08 22:25 ` Emilio G. Cota
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