From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757069Ab1K3O6N (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:58:13 -0500 Received: from www.hansjkoch.de ([178.63.77.200]:45851 "EHLO www.hansjkoch.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754357Ab1K3O6M (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:58:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:57:42 +0100 From: "Hans J. Koch" To: Jean-Francois Dagenais Cc: "Hans J. Koch" , Greg KH , open list Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio: make phys maps optionally cacheable Message-ID: <20111130145742.GC15616@local> References: <1322619165-4330-1-git-send-email-jeff.dagenais@gmail.com> <20111130114310.GC15275@local> <0A290EA2-D5E1-489B-8B3D-3C8B79826C38@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0A290EA2-D5E1-489B-8B3D-3C8B79826C38@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:11:31AM -0500, Jean-Francois Dagenais wrote: [...] > > > > OK, but I won't accept a change to the UIO core without an in-kernel user. > > Please post a driver that actually needs this. This was already discussed > > four weeks ago, see here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/28/247 > Well, my employer is paying for my time to get our product working, not to maintain > the kernel. I have succeeded in arguing that the the changes I make to the kernel in > order to make our branch of the kernel work could benefit everyone, and when the > kernel get better, it's more adopted, then more support comes, bla bla... right. The embedded Linux nightmare... More arguments here: http://lwn.net/Articles/232379/ [...] > Everyone wins if you apply Kumar's patch. It won't be applied without an in-kernel user. Same story. Thanks, Hans