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From: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
To: Earl Chew <echew@ixiacom.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: UIO  null parent for __uio_register_device and uio_device_name()
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:52:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110119205243.GC17399@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D371A35.5000009@ixiacom.com>

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:07:01AM -0800, Earl Chew wrote:
> 
> >> I've added uio_device_chrdev() alongside uio_device_name() to allow
> >> us to figure out the coordinates of the Linux UIO device.
> > 

There's a small library with helper functions. Among other things, they
allow searching the UIO device node by name (the name you gave your device
in uio_info->name). The library is here:

git://git.linutronix.de/projects/libUIO.git

or with gitweb:

http://git.linutronix.de/gitweb.cgi?p=projects/libUIO.git;a=summary

Thanks,
Hans


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19  3:56 RFC: UIO null parent for __uio_register_device and uio_device_name() Earl Chew
2011-01-19 14:56 ` Hans J. Koch
2011-01-19 15:42   ` Earl Chew
2011-01-19 16:30     ` Greg KH
2011-01-19 17:07       ` Earl Chew
2011-01-19 17:11         ` Earl Chew
2011-01-19 17:24           ` Greg KH
2011-01-19 17:22         ` Greg KH
2011-01-19 20:52         ` Hans J. Koch [this message]
2011-01-19 22:06           ` Earl Chew
2011-01-19 22:41             ` Greg KH

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