Re: [patch 2/5] Staging: vme: add VME userspace driver

Greg KH
2009-08-10T21:15:25Z

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:05:26PM +0200, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> > > > Instead of using that we implemented a heretic IOCTL-based
> > > > interface for user-space; at least with it you could create a
> > > > driver (with no interrupt support) for a device in user-space.
> >
> > Why not just use the UIO interface instead of creating
> > yet-another-kernel/user-api?
> >
> > Will that interface not work for what you want to use here?
>
> Certainly. I didn't mean we'd like to see that merged. Currently
> we make extensive use of IOCTLs because we are maintaining
> kernel and user-space code for two platforms/OSes (ppc-lynx and
> x86-linux), and not having access to lynx' source code doesn't
> help. So IOCTLs are pretty much everywhere, much to my regret.

That does not mean we will accept adding new ioctls for the Linux
drivers, so I fail to see the point of this :)

thanks,

greg k-h