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
next prev 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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