Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21

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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?

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