From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:41:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150518104102.22cc3b41@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150518173605.GA30744@infradead.org>
On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:36:05 -0700
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:31:36AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Allow UIO device specific driver to provide ioctl interface.
> > This mechanism is used in DPDK uio_msi driver to allow creating
> > VFIO like events.
>
> I can't find that driver anywhere in the kernel tree, and there is no
> point adding new hooks just for out of tree code that doesn't even
> get tested in tree.
>
I will send that driver as soon as the DPDK folks are ready, like a couple
of days from now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-18 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-18 17:31 [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-18 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-18 17:41 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-05-19 6:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
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