Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751583AbWH3VBk (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:01:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751584AbWH3VBk (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:01:40 -0400 Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info ([195.71.86.239]:54731 "EHLO enyo.dsw2k3.info") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751582AbWH3VBj (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:01:39 -0400 Message-ID: <44F5FCA7.3080509@citd.de> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:01:27 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 Mnenhy/0.7 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH Cc: Matt Porter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers References: <20060830062338.GA10285@kroah.com> <20060830143410.GB19477@gate.crashing.org> <20060830175529.GB6258@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060830175529.GB6258@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1439 Lines: 42 Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:34:10AM -0500, Matt Porter wrote: >>Well, if it's focused on industrial controls like it appears from >>the code here then the name is fine. If it's a starting point to >>become someting more generic then User Space Driver (USD) subsystem >>might be nice. >> > It's not focused on industrial controls at all, that just happens to be > the name of it right now, as that is why it was written. It is much > more generic than that. > > "USD" is a bit too close to "USB" for a name. Any other ideas? DFU - Drivers for Userspace DFU - Driver from Userspace DFUF - Drivers for Userspace Framework DIFUS - Drive It From Userspace :-) FUD - Framework (for) Userspace Drivers ;-) GUDI - Generic Userspace Driver Interface UDF - Userspace Driver Framework :-) UDI - Userspace Driver Interface :-) UUDI - Unified Userspace Driver Interface UFD - Userspace Framework (for) Drivers ... Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/