From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:42:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110620004252.GE19693@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DFE7FF9.9070406@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:02:17AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> There are drivers where this makes sense. For example an FPGA device
> with a proprietary register layout on the memory bus can be done this
> way. The FPGA can simply be mapped in user-space via /dev/mem and
> handled there. If the device requires no access other than memory bus
> reads and writes then writing a custom char device driver just to get an
> mmap function seems a bit overkill.
Calling a 30 line device driver "overkill" might in itself be overkill?
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-20 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-17 8:38 [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:45 ` [PATCH 04/10] ia64: change xlate_dev_mem_ptr's argument to phys_addr_t Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:47 ` [PATCH 08/10] ia64: change valid_phys_addr_range's @addr param " Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 9:30 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ingo Molnar
2011-06-17 9:41 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-17 9:55 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-06-20 2:42 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Américo Wang
2011-06-27 7:46 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of Petr Tesarik
2011-06-19 23:02 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ryan Mallon
2011-06-19 23:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-20 7:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-20 15:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-20 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-20 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-21 6:56 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-06-20 0:42 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2011-06-20 0:46 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ryan Mallon
2011-06-20 0:52 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of Matthew Wilcox
2011-06-20 1:02 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ryan Mallon
2011-06-20 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-20 8:03 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-06-20 17:10 ` Ray Lee
2011-06-29 9:05 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-07-01 12:58 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 13:43 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-07-01 13:47 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-01 14:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-01 14:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 14:54 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-07-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 16:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-01 16:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 19:34 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-07-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 20:44 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-07-03 19:46 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary Ingo Molnar
2011-07-05 17:49 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of Matthew Garrett
2011-07-05 17:56 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-05 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
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