Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753201Ab2BWP5t (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:57:49 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:50249 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753001Ab2BWP5s (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:57:48 -0500 Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com designates 10.68.189.39 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Message-ID: <4F4661D6.7030809@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:57:10 +0800 From: Cong Wang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jidong Xiao CC: Kernel development list Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 493 Lines: 16 On 02/23/2012 12:56 PM, Jidong Xiao wrote: > Hi, Hi, > So is it mainly because the high overhead that prevents the user-space > device drivers ideas being accepted in Linux? > At least UIO drivers are already in Linux kernel, see drivers/uio/. -- 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/