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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de>,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:56:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4633A6D7.3030806@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070427224957.GA17967@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
> Here are the updated UIO (Userspace I/O driver framework) patches for
> 2.6.21.
> 
> They have been revamped from the last time you have seen them, and they
> include a real driver, the Hilscher CIF DeviceNet and Profibus card
> controller, which is being used in production systems with this driver
> framework right now.  The kernel driver they replaced was a total mess,
> with over 60+ ioctls to try to control the different aspects of the
> device.  See the last patch in this series for more details on this
> driver.
> 
I have a political question, if I have a user space driver, is my kernel 
tainted or not? Does this open another multi-month flame war around GPL, 
BSD, NDA, source available but not GPL, and all the other things we 
talked to death about inserting non-GPL modules?

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-27 22:49 [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21 Greg KH
2007-04-27 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] UIO: Add the User IO core code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2007-04-27 22:50   ` [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2007-04-27 22:50     ` [PATCH 3/3] UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2007-04-29 19:44       ` [PATCH 3/3] UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver (with patch) Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-05-01 23:42     ` [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation Randy Dunlap
2007-05-02  8:41       ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-05-02 20:52         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-02 22:00           ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-05-02 23:37             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-03  5:37               ` Greg KH
2007-05-03  6:39                 ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-05-04  9:37                   ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-05-07 17:46                     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-07 20:01                       ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-27 23:19   ` Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" Alan Cox
2007-04-28 11:39     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-28 18:52     ` Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch) Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-28 20:24       ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 20:38         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-28 21:03         ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-28 21:08           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-28 21:14             ` Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-29 22:18               ` Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch) Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-27 23:04 ` [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21 Andrew Morton
2007-04-27 23:11   ` Greg KH
2007-04-28 11:38     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-27 23:26   ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28  0:28   ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-28 13:00 ` Matthieu CASTET
2007-04-28 13:49   ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-28 19:56 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-04-28 20:02   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-28 20:03   ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-04-28 20:15     ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 20:31       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-29  1:23         ` Greg KH
2007-04-29  8:30           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-29 12:09             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-29 16:27               ` Alan Cox
2007-05-07 20:02             ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-08 14:04 Greg KH

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