From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752202Ab2BZAaA (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:30:00 -0500 Received: from edge1.cs.stonybrook.edu ([130.245.9.210]:6708 "EHLO edge1.cs.stonybrook.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751212Ab2BZA37 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:29:59 -0500 Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu designates 10.42.150.200 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F497782.3060902@redhat.com> References: <4F4661D6.7030809@gmail.com> <20120224162109.1bbf157b@redhat.com> <20120225150940.GA3719@localhost> <4F497782.3060902@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:29:56 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? From: Richard Yao To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab CC: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu , Jidong Xiao , , Cong Wang , Kernel development list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Originating-IP: [209.85.210.174] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > This is only partially true. The current debug tools available on the > Kernel are not hard to deal with, and are not behind what's available > on userspace. Is there documentation available for these tools? I would find that useful.