On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:42:27 +1100, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Jon" == Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The scenario I'm thinking about with these patches are things like > >> low-latency user-level networking between nodes in a cluster, where > >> for good performance even with a kernel driver you don't want to > >> share your interrupt line with anything else.
Instead of making up a new API what about making a library of calls that emulates the common entry points used by device drivers. The version I did for UML could take the same driver and run it in user space or the kernel without changing source code. I found this very useful. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/
