On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:49:57 -0700
Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here are the updated UIO (Userspace I/O driver framework) patches for
> 2.6.21.
I'm a bit uncertain about the whole UIO idea, really. I have this vague
feeling that we'd prefer to encourage people to move device drivers into
GPL'ed kernel rather than encouraging them to do closed-source userspace
implementations which will probably end up being slower, less reliable and
unavailable on various architectures, distros, etc.
But I don't think I have the capacity to actually think about this further
- just tossing it out there ;)
> 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.
>
> These patches include full documentation, are self-contained from the
> rest of the kernel, and have been in the -mm tree for the past few
> months with no complaints.
>
> Please pull from:
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6.git/
>
> Patches will be sent as a follow-on to this message to lkml for people
> to see.
>
> drivers/uio/uio_cif.c | 156 ++++++++
eh? How come a particular device requires 156 lines of kernel code to
support a userspace driver? Doesn't that kind of defeat the point?
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