From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:39:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157056749.4386.137.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157013027.7566.515.camel@capoeira>
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:30 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:23, Greg KH wrote:
> [...]
> > Thomas and I lamented that we were getting tired of seeing stuff like
> > this, and it was about time that we added the proper code to the kernel
> > to provide everything that would be needed in order to write PCI drivers
> > in userspace in a sane manner. Really all that is needed is a way to
> > handle the interrupt, everything else can already be done in userspace
> > (look at X for an example of this...)
> [...]
> > So, here's the code.
>
> I know I look like I'm trolling here, but as this is the perfect
> stable-binary-driver-ABI some people have been looking for, it would be
> wise to make it taint the kernel with its own flag.
Why? There's no technical or legal requirement for userspace drivers to
be GPLed.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-31 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-30 6:23 [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers Greg KH
2006-08-30 10:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 14:34 ` Matt Porter
2006-08-30 16:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 17:55 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 20:32 ` Foli Ayivoh
2006-08-30 21:01 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2006-08-30 21:25 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-30 22:08 ` Greg KH
2006-09-01 1:36 ` Brice Goglin
2006-09-01 3:22 ` Greg KH
2006-09-01 3:37 ` Brice Goglin
2006-09-01 4:27 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 13:49 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-01 18:16 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 17:07 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-30 17:52 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 22:50 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31 0:17 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 13:24 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31 22:42 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 7:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31 8:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-31 8:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 20:39 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-08-31 20:53 ` Chris Friesen
2006-08-31 21:39 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 20:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 21:12 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-31 21:18 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 21:33 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31 21:40 ` Greg KH
2006-09-01 21:17 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-03 8:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-12 19:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-09-14 5:57 ` Greg KH
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