From: broonie@kernel.org (Mark Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC] clk: Introduce userspace clock driver
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:21:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130516182122.GG1627@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51945F27.7010003@codeaurora.org>
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:23:03PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On 05/11/2013 07:21 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> >It's much harder when it's in the standard kernel and there's no contact
> >with some of the users. I've pushed back pretty strongly on some of
> >your equivalent stuff for regulators for this reason.
> Agreed. I don't really keep up with what's going on with the MSM regulators.
> But at some point, I'll start requesting for this for debugfs. It's
> terribly handy to debug power issues, run unit tests and for debug
> sessions (debugfs. So, clearly!).
Sure, it's handy for debugging - but it's also far too handy for writing
silly things in userspace which isn't something we want to encourage.
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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "Mike Turquette" <mturquette@linaro.org>,
"Emilio López" <emilio@elopez.com.ar>,
"Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] clk: Introduce userspace clock driver
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:21:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130516182122.GG1627@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51945F27.7010003@codeaurora.org>
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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:23:03PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On 05/11/2013 07:21 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> >It's much harder when it's in the standard kernel and there's no contact
> >with some of the users. I've pushed back pretty strongly on some of
> >your equivalent stuff for regulators for this reason.
> Agreed. I don't really keep up with what's going on with the MSM regulators.
> But at some point, I'll start requesting for this for debugfs. It's
> terribly handy to debug power issues, run unit tests and for debug
> sessions (debugfs. So, clearly!).
Sure, it's handy for debugging - but it's also far too handy for writing
silly things in userspace which isn't something we want to encourage.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-16 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 17:31 [PATCH RFC] User space clock driver Soren Brinkmann
2013-05-10 17:31 ` Soren Brinkmann
2013-05-10 17:31 ` [PATCH RFC] clk: Introduce userspace " Soren Brinkmann
2013-05-10 17:31 ` Soren Brinkmann
2013-05-10 17:44 ` Emilio López
2013-05-10 17:44 ` Emilio López
2013-05-10 18:15 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 18:15 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 18:49 ` Emilio López
2013-05-10 18:49 ` Emilio López
2013-05-10 22:18 ` Mike Turquette
2013-05-10 22:18 ` Mike Turquette
2013-05-10 23:01 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-10 23:01 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-10 23:06 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 23:06 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 23:25 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-10 23:25 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-10 23:36 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 23:36 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-11 14:21 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-11 14:21 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-16 4:23 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-16 4:23 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-16 18:21 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-05-16 18:21 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-10 23:08 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 23:08 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 8:31 ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-05-13 8:31 ` Peter De Schrijver
[not found] ` <CAHp75Vcr10d=XesGQvrC_v+ijdp3nK+m=w5E7d6GCo1Z9ogWnw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-10 18:03 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 18:03 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-10 21:24 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-10 21:24 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-11 16:54 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-11 16:54 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-12 14:33 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-12 14:33 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-12 19:05 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-12 19:05 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 5:21 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-13 5:21 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-13 16:09 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 16:09 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 16:21 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-13 16:21 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-13 17:24 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 17:24 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 17:37 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-13 17:37 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-13 17:58 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 17:58 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-13 18:18 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-13 18:18 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-14 16:46 ` Mike Turquette
2013-05-14 16:46 ` Mike Turquette
2013-05-14 18:09 ` Philip Balister
2013-05-14 18:09 ` Philip Balister
2013-05-15 4:46 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-15 4:46 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-16 4:28 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-16 4:28 ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-16 14:44 ` Philip Balister
2013-05-16 14:44 ` Philip Balister
2013-05-16 17:26 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-16 17:26 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-16 18:55 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-16 18:55 ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-05-17 11:02 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-17 11:02 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-13 18:16 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-13 18:16 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-13 18:20 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-13 18:20 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-13 18:44 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-13 18:44 ` Mark Brown
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