Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:34:08 -0500 | Subject | Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? | From | Jidong Xiao <> |
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/. >
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?
-Jidong
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