Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:41:02AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I will send that driver as soon as the DPDK folks are ready, like a couple > of days from now. Then jsut send the preparation patch that isn't useful without it together with that one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:41:02AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: I will send that driver as soon as the DPDK folks are ready, like a couple of days from now. Then jsut send the preparation patch that isn't useful without it together with that one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:36:05 -0700 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:31:36AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Allow UIO device specific driver to provide ioctl interface. > > This mechanism is used in DPDK uio_msi driver to allow creating > > VFIO like events. > > I can't

Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:31:36AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Allow UIO device specific driver to provide ioctl interface. > This mechanism is used in DPDK uio_msi driver to allow creating > VFIO like events. I can't find that driver anywhere in the kernel tree, and there is no point

[PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Allow UIO device specific driver to provide ioctl interface. This mechanism is used in DPDK uio_msi driver to allow creating VFIO like events. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/drivers/uio/uio.c 2015-05-18 10:29:00.097129278 -0700 +++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c 2015-05-18 10:29:00.097129278 -0700

[PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Allow UIO device specific driver to provide ioctl interface. This mechanism is used in DPDK uio_msi driver to allow creating VFIO like events. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger step...@networkplumber.org --- a/drivers/uio/uio.c 2015-05-18 10:29:00.097129278 -0700 +++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c

Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:36:05 -0700 Christoph Hellwig h...@infradead.org wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:31:36AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Allow UIO device specific driver to provide ioctl interface. This mechanism is used in DPDK uio_msi driver to allow creating VFIO like events.

Re: [PATCH] uio: add support for ioctl

2015-05-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:31:36AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Allow UIO device specific driver to provide ioctl interface. This mechanism is used in DPDK uio_msi driver to allow creating VFIO like events. I can't find that driver anywhere in the kernel tree, and there is no point adding