Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:57:20 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:47:14PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > So, here's the code.  I think it does a bit too much all at once, but it
> > is an example of how this can be done.  This is working today in some
> > industrial environments, successfully handling hardware controls of very
> > large and scary machines.
> 
> At present it is named uio in -mm. But that seems to conflict with a
> few cases (uio.h + Solaris).
> 
> How about:
> Universal User IO => uuio
> 
> A quick google did not turn up anything conflicting.

Ah, I like that better.  I had made the header file be called
uio_driver.h to get around the namespace issue, but uuio sounds nice.

thanks,

greg k-h
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