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From:
Alan Cox <alan@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <tglx@...>, Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@...>, Hans J. Koch <hjk@...>
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Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
Date: Friday, April 27, 2007 - 7:26 pm
> I'm a bit uncertain about the whole UIO idea, really. I have this vague
quoted text
> 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.
UIO is suprisingly close to chunks of the drm driver so the basic design seems to have some sanity to it. Alan -
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[GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Greg KH
, (Fri Apr 27, 6:49 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Bill Davidsen
, (Sat Apr 28, 3:56 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Sat Apr 28, 4:03 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Alan Cox
, (Sat Apr 28, 4:15 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Sat Apr 28, 4:31 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Greg KH
, (Sat Apr 28, 9:23 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Sun Apr 29, 4:30 am)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Pavel Machek
, (Mon May 7, 4:02 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Jan Engelhardt
, (Sun Apr 29, 8:09 am)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Alan Cox
, (Sun Apr 29, 12:27 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Sat Apr 28, 4:02 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Andrew Morton
, (Fri Apr 27, 7:04 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Fri Apr 27, 8:28 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Alan Cox
, (Fri Apr 27, 7:26 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Greg KH
, (Fri Apr 27, 7:11 pm)
Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Sat Apr 28, 7:38 am)
[PATCH 1/3] UIO: Add the User IO core code
, Greg Kroah-Hartman
, (Fri Apr 27, 6:50 pm)
Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code"
, Alan Cox
, (Fri Apr 27, 7:19 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch)
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Sat Apr 28, 2:52 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch)
, Alan Cox
, (Sat Apr 28, 4:24 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch)
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Sat Apr 28, 5:03 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch)
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Sat Apr 28, 5:08 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code"
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Sat Apr 28, 5:14 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch)
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Sun Apr 29, 6:18 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code" (with patch)
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Sat Apr 28, 4:38 pm)
Re: Flaws with "UIO: Add the User IO core code"
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Sat Apr 28, 7:39 am)
[PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Greg Kroah-Hartman
, (Fri Apr 27, 6:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Randy Dunlap
, (Tue May 1, 7:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Wed May 2, 4:41 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Randy Dunlap
, (Wed May 2, 4:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Wed May 2, 6:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Randy Dunlap
, (Wed May 2, 7:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Greg KH
, (Thu May 3, 1:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Thu May 3, 2:39 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Fri May 4, 5:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Randy Dunlap
, (Mon May 7, 1:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Mon May 7, 4:01 pm)
[PATCH 3/3] UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver
, Greg Kroah-Hartman
, (Fri Apr 27, 6:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver (with patch)
, Hans-Jürgen Koch
, (Sun Apr 29, 3:44 pm)
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