Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756862Ab2BWUsg (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:48:36 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:37922 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756223Ab2BWUsf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:48:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:32 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Jidong Xiao cc: Cong Wang , Kernel development list Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4F4661D6.7030809@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 622 Lines: 19 On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Jidong Xiao wrote: >> >> At least UIO drivers are already in Linux kernel, see drivers/uio/. >> > > Oh, so does it make sense to move existing device drivers into user > space? For example, move most of the stuff located under drivers/usb > into user-space? Why would you want to? What advantage are you looking to gain from all the effort? David Lang -- 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/