A large number of people have expressed interest recently in the userspace i/o driver core which allows userspace drivers to be written to handle some types of hardware.
Right now the UIO core is working and in the -mm releases. It's been rewritten from the last time patches were posted to lkml and is much simpler. It also includes full documentation and two example drivers and two example userspace programs that test those drivers. But in order to get this core into the kernel tree, we need to have some "real" drivers written that use it. So, for anyone that wants to see this go into the tree, now is the time to step forward and post your patches for hardware that this kind of driver interface is needed. If no such drivers appear, then there is a very slim chance that this interface will be accepted into the tree. The patches can be found in the -mm releases or at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/uio.patch - UIO core http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/uio-documentation.patch - UIO documentation http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/uio-dummy.patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/uio-irq.patch - two example kernel modules and userspace programs showing how to use the UIO interface. If anyone has any questions on how to use this interface, or anything else about it, please let me and Thomas know. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
