Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 13:42 schrieb Alan: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100 > Hans-Jürgen Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You think it's easier for a manufacturer of industrial IO cards to > > debug a (large) kernel module? > > You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs in ring 3 but > accessing I/O space.
For the intended audience, yes. > > > > > uio also doesn't handle hotplug, pci and other "small" matters. > > > > uio is supposed to be a very thin layer. Hotplug and PCI are already > > handled by other subsystems. > > And if you have a PCI or a hotplug card ? How many industrial I/O cards > are still ISA btw ? Who is talking about ISA? All cards we had in mind are PCI. Of course you have to do the usual initialization work in your probe/release or init/exit functions. These are just a few lines you find in any beginners device-driver-writing book. I don't think that the UIO framework could simplify that in a sensible way. Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
