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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Redesign Memory Management layer and more core subsystem
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:54:13 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1406131352490.24349@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140613182537.GA24180@kroah.com>

On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote:

> > Standardize the kernel APIs for this use case
>
> The UIO interface is being used for this, so all should be good on the
> kernel side, right?

Ok I have seen any vendor use that interface and thus I am not familiar.

> > as well as the user space APIs so that software runs on any of the 3
> > companies stacks.
>
> As these libraries are outside of the kernel tree, there's not much us
> kernel developers can do about this.  Work with those companies to do
> this...

Its not that easy a separation. The mangement functions better be left
with the kernel so that security and permission management work and so
that the device stays in a well known state if accessed from multiple
applications.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-13 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-11 19:03 Christoph Lameter
2014-06-11 19:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2014-06-11 19:45 ` Greg KH
2014-06-12 13:35   ` John W. Linville
2014-06-13 16:57     ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-13 17:31       ` Greg KH
2014-06-13 17:59         ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-13 19:18           ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-06-13 22:30             ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-13 16:56   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-13 17:30     ` Greg KH
2014-06-13 17:55       ` James Bottomley
2014-06-13 18:41         ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-16 11:39           ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-06-16 14:05             ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-16 14:09               ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-06-16 14:28                 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-13 18:01       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-13 18:25         ` Greg KH
2014-06-13 18:54           ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-06-11 20:08 ` josh
2014-06-11 20:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-11 20:52 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-12  6:59 ` Phillip Lougher
2014-06-13 17:02   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-13 21:36     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-13 22:23       ` Rik van Riel
2014-06-13 23:04       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-14  1:19     ` Phillip Lougher
2014-06-16 14:04       ` Christoph Lameter

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