Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:34:10AM -0500, Matt Porter wrote:
>>Well, if it's focused on industrial controls like it appears from
>>the code here then the name is fine. If it's a starting point to
>>become someting more generic then User Space Driver (USD) subsystem
>>might be nice.
>>
> It's not focused on industrial controls at all, that just happens to be
> the name of it right now, as that is why it was written.  It is much
> more generic than that.
> 
> "USD" is a bit too close to "USB" for a name.  Any other ideas?

DFU - Drivers for Userspace
DFU - Driver from Userspace
DFUF - Drivers for Userspace Framework
DIFUS - Drive It From Userspace :-)
FUD - Framework (for) Userspace Drivers ;-)
GUDI - Generic Userspace Driver Interface
UDF - Userspace Driver Framework :-)
UDI - Userspace Driver Interface :-)
UUDI - Unified Userspace Driver Interface
UFD - Userspace Framework (for) Drivers

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