Re: Fw: [3.18.3] poll() on gpio pins broken

[Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 05:39:01PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 04:52:26PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> >> Whoever comes up with a cleaner sysfs or a clean device interface
> >> will win the argument and lock the path for the other approach.
> >> It's like a forking path with no going back or something.
> >
> > There is no need to fork and in fact it would probably be a bad idea.
> 
> For the record I am *NOT* talking about this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29
>

Okay.
 
> > At EMAC we support both sysfs and character device simultaneously.
> > Sysfs for the ease of use and ioctl for real time advantages.
> 
> What is EMAC?

It is the company that I am currently working for.
www.emacinc.com

> 
> > Not saying that it is a good reference but the two interfaces "could" co-exist.
> 
> Hm....
> 
> I would more think about deprecating the sysfs in favor of the dev
> node.

What happens to all of the users of the sysfs interface when this happens?

> 
> But this is getting terribly academic since we're just talking, noone is
> really implementing anything.

Without a specification nothing is ever going to be implemented.

If not here, where will we be able to discuss the implementation details?

> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij