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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Cc: trenn@suse.de, Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] EC registers - Adding sysfs interface?
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:12:37 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128231237.GC22587@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474DB282.4050003@gmail.com>

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Having it as /dev/ec0 should not introduce too many problems...

As long as it is with a debugging intent, and not as a place to plug
"userspace" drivers at.  That would be much too dangerous IMO.

> Also, it has much smaller impact than /dev/mem or /dev/ioport...

IMHO, it is just as dangerous.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 17:24 [RFC] EC registers - Adding sysfs interface? Carlos Corbacho
2007-11-13 18:40 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-13 18:46   ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-13 18:49   ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-11-13 18:54     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-13 19:03       ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-11-28 16:28         ` Thomas Renninger
2007-11-28 18:25           ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-28 23:12             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2007-12-07  2:52           ` Len Brown
2007-12-07  8:53             ` Thomas Renninger
2007-12-10 20:36               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-11-14  2:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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