From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Cochran Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: Add initial Digital Timing Engine (DTE) driver for cygnus Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 08:33:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20150521063303.GA1558@localhost.localdomain> References: <5543CD73.2030902@broadcom.com> <20150501203004.3add2c95@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <9193036.7UYD2OGJHk@wuerfel> <554D1649.2030106@broadcom.com> <20150513153544.GC2065@localhost.localdomain> <5553AAEA.30503@broadcom.com> <20150513202716.GA15878@localhost.localdomain> <5553DD7D.8090905@broadcom.com> <20150514113054.GB1580@localhost.localdomain> <555D1ADA.8070308@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <555D1ADA.8070308@broadcom.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Richardson Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Darren Edamura , One Thousand Gnomes , Scott Branden , Pawel Moll , Ian Campbell , Ray Jui , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, Kumar Gala , Mark Rutland , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:38:02PM -0700, Jonathan Richardson wrote: > > Richard, this design isn't going to work. We need to have both kernel > and user space consumers. But you did not implement even a single kernel consumer. > We don't want all GPIO's in a common timestamp > buffer either, as it presents problems I mentioned previously. Currently > the network input is a gpio. That won't work. Consider what happens when the MAC drops a packet. > After some discussion here I think we'll > have to keep this driver out of the kernel for now. Fine with me. Thanks, Richard