From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757321AbbJHMlq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 08:41:46 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:37001 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756694AbbJHMlp (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 08:41:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] uio: add ioctl support To: Stephen Hemminger References: <1444151859-10217-1-git-send-email-vladz@cloudius-systems.com> <1444151859-10217-2-git-send-email-vladz@cloudius-systems.com> <20151007084627.GA4270@kroah.com> <5614DDE5.1050100@cloudius-systems.com> <20151007172112.GC9702@kroah.com> <5615562A.1070105@cloudius-systems.com> <56156BEA.4050809@cloudius-systems.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel , bruce.richardson@intel.com, hjk@hansjkoch.de, corbet@lwn.net, avi@cloudius-systems.com, gleb@cloudius-systems.com, alexander.duyck@gmail.com, mst@redhat.com From: Vlad Zolotarov Message-ID: <56166485.9090808@cloudius-systems.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:41:41 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/07/15 22:51, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I was thinking of not naming it uio at all > U mean doing something completely orthogonal to UIO? And how did u thing to access bars? With UIO or implement this functionality in the new configfs too? If yes - then it will essentially be UIO with MSI-X support, won't it? ;) It'll also be the third user-space drivers infrastructure and I'm not sure there is enough motivation add it. Note that "some on this thread" are claiming that even two is too many... ;)