From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: debugfs: parse all ext_csd via debug_fs Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:08:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4EE9F140.4010505@st.com> References: <1319468694-8773-1-git-send-email-peppe.cavallaro@st.com> <4ECA0025.6030700@st.com> <4EDDAD95.7020500@st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eu1sys200aog106.obsmtp.com ([207.126.144.121]:57211 "EHLO eu1sys200aog106.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751089Ab1LONIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:08:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Ball Cc: Linus Walleij , Sebastian Rasmussen , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org Hi Chris On 12/13/2011 5:35 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Peppe, > > On Tue, Dec 06 2011, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote: >>> I'm all for this patch so it gets visible in debugfs atleast, >>> since people seem to need to know these things, so take that as an >>> Acked-by: Linus Walleij >>> >>> Those who want to writ userspace tools can proceed to >>> implement the proper sysfs interfaces and document them. >> >> Hello Chris. >> >> Sorry if I disturb you, any news about the patch: >> >> mmc: debugfs: parse ext_csd via debug_fs (v2) >> >> Reviewed-by Sebastian and Acked-by Linus? >> >> Please let me know if I need to do some other work on this or if it can >> be considered for mmc-next. > > I'm still leaning towards doing this in userspace instead -- once we > have a userspace binary that can do this I don't think there'll be any > reason to keep a debugfs interface for the same thing around, and that > tells me that we should just avoid merging the debugfs interface and > move to userspace straight away. > > I'm hoping to get the userspace tools repository running soon. that sounds good to me. As soon as the tool is available I'll contribute with these changes. Let me know Peppe > > Thanks, > > - Chris.