Re: [PATCH V3] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers

Greg KH
2010-07-20T20:24:36Z

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