Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?

[david]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Jidong Xiao wrote:

> > At least UIO drivers are already in Linux kernel, see drivers/uio/.
>
> Oh, so does it make sense to move existing device drivers into user
> space? For example, move most of the stuff located under drivers/usb
> into user-space?

Why would you want to? What advantage are you looking to gain from all the 
effort?

David Lang
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