On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:35:51AM -0800, Tom Rix wrote: > > On 12/16/20 9:44 PM, Xu Yilun wrote: > > This patchset supports some dfl device drivers written in userspace. > > > > In the patchset v1, the "driver_override" interface should be used to bind > > the DFL UIO driver to DFL devices. But there is concern that the > > "driver_override" interface is not OK itself. So in v2, we use a new > > matching algorithem. The "driver_override" interface is abandoned, the DFL > > UIO driver matches any DFL device which could not be handled by other DFL > > drivers. So the DFL UIO driver could be used for new DFL devices which are > > not supported by kernel, also it will not impact the devices which are > > already got supported. > > This set looks good to me. > > Moritz, > > Is it possible to get this into 5.11 ? How would that be possible? New features have to be in linux-next successfully, _BEFORE_ the merge window opens. Please read Documentation/process/ for how we do all of this... thanks, greg k-h
