Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755368Ab0GQIpq (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:45:46 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:45436 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751926Ab0GQIpp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:45:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Yq7a02W7kvHv0rUS2Osb4eXm4IlL1+CTAoI3lorU6epz528Th3g+cCnQM8ISWykV/r lRgA/cIbOqAyvSqa/HWq6eVZvSVwzioqoLBo6MIXk1/YKSU7OnU8x9DvCrRX1GnKcfHy +WMe0Vs8ltAwwrmQGxlNrj06PVQEIQHMYbo44= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4c40d618./j7HFMCg9NusCIiB%pugs@cisco.com> References: <4c40d618./j7HFMCg9NusCIiB%pugs@cisco.com> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Piotr_Jaroszy=C5=84ski?= Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:45:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers To: Tom Lyon Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org, joro@8bytes.org, hjk@linutronix.de, avi@redhat.com, gregkh@suse.de, alex.williamson@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, aafabbri@cisco.com, scofeldm@cisco.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 17 On 16 July 2010 23:58, Tom Lyon wrote: > The VFIO "driver" is used to allow privileged AND non-privileged processes to > implement user-level device drivers for any well-behaved PCI, PCI-X, and PCIe > devices. Thanks for working on that! I wonder whether it's possible to say what are the chances of it being merged to mainline and which version we might be talking about? -- Best Regards Piotr Jaroszyński -- 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/