On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:53:39PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote: > This is the documentation for the Xillybus driver. It's intended for kernel > maintainers, since actual users will most likely rely on other documentation. > > It has turned out somewhat tricky to put Xillybus in one of the existing > categories of device drivers. I placed it under drivers/uio, mainly because it > shares the spirit of a generic driver allowing userspace programs to talk > directly with hardware. Unlike the classic UIO devices, Xillybus' char files > shouldn't be memory mapped, but rather used in the regular manner as streams > of data.
In that case it simply isn't a UIO device. > > This driver was previously posted under drivers/misc/. The misc device > framework turned out to be inadequate, as the driver may create more than 100 > device files in some cases. And that is a problem? If yes, try something else like sysfs. From your description, this is a drivers/misc device for me. Thanks, Hans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
