linux-kernel - Re: Industrial device driver uio/uio

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Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:43:41 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, akpm@...l.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Industrial device driver uio/uio_*

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:23:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> >Subject: Industrial device driver uio/uio_*
> 
> Hm has this now been named uio? iio may have seem strange to some, but 
> uio also resembles BSD/Solaris (uio_copyin, uio_copyout, uiomove, etc.)

Yes, I am aware of uio, we have include/linux/uio.h :)

Do you have a better name for this code?  If you don't like uio, I'm
open to new suggestions.

thanks,

greg k-h
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