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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Piotr Jaroszy??ski <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lyon <pugs@cisco.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	randy.dunlap@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
	joro@8bytes.org, hjk@linutronix.de, avi@redhat.com,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, aafabbri@cisco.com,
	scofeldm@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:20:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100720202030.GC11991@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin4aU9GtC8zOuQcCRAQsWb_ndih3c6URlpE4ODI@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Piotr Jaroszy??ski wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 23:58, Tom Lyon <pugs@cisco.com> wrote:
> > The VFIO "driver" is used to allow privileged AND non-privileged processes to
> > implement user-level device drivers for any well-behaved PCI, PCI-X, and PCIe
> > devices.
> 
> Thanks for working on that! I wonder whether it's possible to say what
> are the chances of it being merged to mainline and which version we
> might be talking about?

We still have a long way to go before you need to worry about what
kernel version it's going to show up in...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-16 21:58 [PATCH V3] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers Tom Lyon
2010-07-16 21:58 ` Tom Lyon
2010-07-17  8:45 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2010-07-20 20:20   ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-07-18  9:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-19  4:56   ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-19 10:06     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-27 22:13       ` Tom Lyon
2010-07-27 23:53         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-28 21:14           ` Tom Lyon
2010-07-28 21:46             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-28 21:57             ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-28 21:57               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-28 22:13                 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-29 14:27                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-30 20:42                     ` Alex Williamson

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