From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: mmio_nvram.c users ?
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 13:45:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275104704.1931.528.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100525110050.GH24511@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 07:00 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:43:59PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >Hi folks !
> >
> >Anybody aware of anything other than Cell using that driver ?
> >
> >I'd like to make it a platform driver instead of having something that
> >pokes at anything that has a "device_type" set to "nvram" (which is
> >gross and bogus). But I need to know what platforms to fixup...
>
> Why bother? You could just use either drivers/mtd/devices/{phram.c or slram.c}
> and get the same functionality at that point, couldn't you?
Won't that break existing userspace ?
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-29 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-25 7:43 mmio_nvram.c users ? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-25 8:41 ` Adrian Reber
2010-05-25 8:43 ` Martyn Welch
2010-05-25 11:00 ` Josh Boyer
2010-05-29 3:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-05-29 13:41 ` Josh Boyer
2010-05-29 23:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-30 0:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-30 5:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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