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From: Foli Ayivoh <it21@arcor.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@embeddedalley.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:32:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608302232.43125.it21@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060830175529.GB6258@kroah.com>

> 
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:34:10AM -0500, Matt Porter wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > A while ago, Thomas and I were sitting in the back of a conference
.
.
.
> more generic than that.
> 
> "USD" is a bit too close to "USB" for a name.  Any other ideas?
what about  U_IO     ;-)
> 
> > > Thomas has also promised to come up with some userspace code that uses
> > > this interface to show how to use it, but seems to have forgotten.
> > > Consider this a reminder :)
> > 
> > That would be nice to see. I can't see how devices and drivers
> > are registered from user space with what's here. I see
> > iio_register_device() exported but no clue how userspace tells
> > the kernel to claim a device or register an iio driver.
> 
> His posted example should show you how this all works together.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30 20:32 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 [this message]
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
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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