From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
bruce.richardson@intel.com, hjk@hansjkoch.de, corbet@lwn.net,
avi@cloudius-systems.com, gleb@cloudius-systems.com,
alexander.duyck@gmail.com, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] uio: add ioctl support
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:03:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151008130328.GA31866@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56166485.9090808@cloudius-systems.com>
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 03:41:41PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
>
>
> On 10/07/15 22:51, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> >I was thinking of not naming it uio at all
> >
>
> U mean doing something completely orthogonal to UIO? And how did u thing to
> access bars? With UIO or implement this functionality in the new configfs
> too?
> If yes - then it will essentially be UIO with MSI-X support, won't it? ;)
> It'll also be the third user-space drivers infrastructure and I'm not sure
> there is enough motivation add it.
> Note that "some on this thread" are claiming that even two is too many... ;)
Let's wait to see what happens here, I talked to Stephen and I think
that a non-UIO driver might be the correct solution here. At the very
least, the proposed patches are not acceptable, so it can't be any worse
:)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-08 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 17:17 [PATCH v5 0/4] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] uio: add ioctl support Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 21:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-07 8:17 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 8:18 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 8:46 ` Greg KH
2015-10-07 8:55 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 17:21 ` Greg KH
2015-10-07 17:28 ` Vlad Zolotarov
[not found] ` <CAOaVG17hMG7cAnD_DZ9J3pRMpXctx3o_EF8A62vtZx6Mv9c-2g@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-07 19:00 ` Vlad Zolotarov
[not found] ` <CAOaVG147Fxq0VyohAFBvw4cxtLRw3qd2aNt-e2Vr4_R5EYs7zQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-08 12:41 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-08 13:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] uio_pci_generic: properly initialize PCI bars mappings towards UIO Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 21:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] Documentation: update uio-howto Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 18:27 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 20:35 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 20:48 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 22:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-07 8:38 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 10:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-07 13:44 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 13:55 ` Vlad Zolotarov
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