From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/misc/eeprom/men_eeprod: Introduce MEN Board Information EEPROM driver Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:24:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20141020082421.GB1413@katana> References: <20141016085835.GA1273@katana> <20141016102126.GB23256@awelinux> <20141016095910.GC1273@katana> <20141016114401.GA22506@awelinux> <20141020081822.GA1413@katana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141020081822.GA1413@katana> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Werner Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, johannes.thumshirn@men.de List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Here it gets frustrating. It seems you have no idea what an OS is for, > not even after I tried to describe it :( Sorry, that might have been too strong. Still, we can't map any hardware which is out there 1:1 into userspace, we need abstraction. If you want to help with this abstraction, this is more than appreciated. If you want to keep your driver, this will have to stay out-of-tree, I'm afraid. Regards, Wolfram --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJURMa1AAoJEBQN5MwUoCm2sMwP/3ijvRY/1WZ9LSLQ0ncC3MUw //e/bLnFYf5bI+feV2CMFeHRvPiwgM2dRwn80gdQmhEbuqMd0wXy/igbskeSQXOT Vl7iU7Yw/56xxlrc/E5yE3doVUX5N5tdWKMBA2cAjM0M4UQEllBN326OtRj1k1Wu X5GzyFhvYqWqLWV0/Zio7hTOY+UquhojKDwL1K06DFJeUnAf+raKSaP/x8gm3pwT aCgGKNUvUa6/P1bii7CSEUvkqtOPngeMPHadzRfrfSxKRi6mcO9Ka7w2cNlItEfE Z/SEhLl//qORlH1JFkzj2Ygw8lMcVBZ5bIw+K78aUtksHdS19erz4Mey86TJ+f16 vqWJ2/niyChvlWDyn9G93o6UY0xv6pENF0hIo83naroY1t5Fp0i8E6JffYuOi+Oe 0HgbJIbpkfoi/acqdFXv37Tz982bNUvmh1bX9l91BPeIpr5MtX/bg9N1ZaSW/Vy6 wEX9xqj2SvoZkRcP8fM3o0FiqTcpi14jgVvKum4C2K9ck2hZKO13RP7XHKn4YRNS BOnWfXUumjC2Pk8YykLlSXSR/D5OKEY3nyM4uLPZhCQfbVuq05SpFqhP0Qhz/qsh b0FSLNKi2eE/B6aU3auqO4c9JqlaHqMUGgF+qVR/pQkQwz+DBO3ZIwlklCGhuM+3 ORe9/iz+Sm8S3UobcRNR =PzeD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX--