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On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:30 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:23, Greg KH wrote: > [...] > > Thomas and I lamented that we were getting tired of seeing stuff like > > this, and it was about time that we added the proper code to the kernel > > to provide everything that would be needed in order to write PCI drivers > > in userspace in a sane manner. Really all that is needed is a way to > > handle the interrupt, everything else can already be done in userspace > > (look at X for an example of this...) > [...] > > So, here's the code. > > I know I look like I'm trolling here, but as this is the perfect > stable-binary-driver-ABI some people have been looking for, it would be > wise to make it taint the kernel with its own flag. Why? There's no technical or legal requirement for userspace drivers to be GPLed. Lee - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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