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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:57:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060914055720.GB18031@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060912194714.GA1970@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:47:14PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > So, here's the code.  I think it does a bit too much all at once, but it
> > is an example of how this can be done.  This is working today in some
> > industrial environments, successfully handling hardware controls of very
> > large and scary machines.
> 
> At present it is named uio in -mm. But that seems to conflict with a
> few cases (uio.h + Solaris).
> 
> How about:
> Universal User IO => uuio
> 
> A quick google did not turn up anything conflicting.

Ah, I like that better.  I had made the header file be called
uio_driver.h to get around the namespace issue, but uuio sounds nice.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30  6:23 Greg KH
2006-08-30 10:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 14:34 ` Matt Porter
2006-08-30 16:25   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 17:55   ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 20:32     ` Foli Ayivoh
2006-08-30 21:01     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2006-08-30 21:25       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-30 22:08         ` Greg KH
2006-09-01  1:36     ` Brice Goglin
2006-09-01  3:22       ` Greg KH
2006-09-01  3:37         ` Brice Goglin
2006-09-01  4:27           ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 13:49   ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-01 18:16     ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 17:07 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-30 17:52   ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 22:50     ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31  0:17       ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 13:24         ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31 22:42           ` Greg KH
2006-08-31  7:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31  8:05   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-31  8:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 20:39   ` Lee Revell
2006-08-31 20:53     ` Chris Friesen
2006-08-31 21:39       ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 20:58     ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 21:12       ` Lee Revell
2006-08-31 21:18         ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 21:33           ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31 21:40       ` Greg KH
2006-09-01 21:17 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-03  8:34   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-12 19:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-09-14  5:57   ` Greg KH [this message]

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