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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:43:41 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: Industrial device driver uio/uio_*
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:23:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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> >Subject: Industrial device driver uio/uio_*
> 
> Hm has this now been named uio? iio may have seem strange to some, but 
> uio also resembles BSD/Solaris (uio_copyin, uio_copyout, uiomove, etc.)

Yes, I am aware of uio, we have include/linux/uio.h :)

Do you have a better name for this code?  If you don't like uio, I'm
open to new suggestions.

thanks,

greg k-h