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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:20:30 -0700
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Piotr Jaroszy??ski wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 23:58, Tom Lyon <pugs@cisco.com> wrote:
> > The VFIO "driver" is used to allow privileged AND non-privileged processes to
> > implement user-level device drivers for any well-behaved PCI, PCI-X, and PCIe
> > devices.
> 
> Thanks for working on that! I wonder whether it's possible to say what
> are the chances of it being merged to mainline and which version we
> might be talking about?

We still have a long way to go before you need to worry about what
kernel version it's going to show up in...

thanks,

greg k-h