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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, hjk@hansjkoch.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] New driver: Xillybus generic interface for FPGA (programmable logic)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:39:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130520183906.GA14851@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368802420-26723-1-git-send-email-eli.billauer@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:53:39PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote:
> This is the documentation for the Xillybus driver. It's intended for kernel
> maintainers, since actual users will most likely rely on other documentation.
> 
> It has turned out somewhat tricky to put Xillybus in one of the existing
> categories of device drivers. I placed it under drivers/uio, mainly because it
> shares the spirit of a generic driver allowing userspace programs to talk
> directly with hardware. Unlike the classic UIO devices, Xillybus' char files
> shouldn't be memory mapped, but rather used in the regular manner as streams
> of data.

Because of that, this isn't a UIO driver at all.  It doesn't use the UIO
interfaces, so it shouldn't be in this directory, sorry.

thanks

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-20 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-17 14:53 [PATCH v4 1/2] New driver: Xillybus generic interface for FPGA (programmable logic) Eli Billauer
2013-05-17 14:53 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] " Eli Billauer
2013-05-20 18:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-05-20 21:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Hans J. Koch
2013-05-21 10:46   ` Eli Billauer

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