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Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:41:02 -0700
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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl
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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.