From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>
Cc: paul@pwsan.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial debugfs support for omap clock framework
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:14:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804171214.35936.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080417.215723.241260895.Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Hiroshi DOYU wrote:
> For "set_parent", would it be possible to do that by using
> "debugfs_rename()"?
Could be. What happens if you try it?
> And if there will be a little possibility that sysfs attribute can be
> used by userland in the future, keeping sysfs instead of debugfs
> doesn't seem not so illegal, does it?
I'm unaware of any laws passed in any country on that topic. ;)
I happen to think that the clock tree is sensitive enough
that it should not be managed from userspace in production
systems. (Except possibly through driver-specific APIs which
ensure the right rules are followed.) Too easy to break things
otherwise.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-17 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-16 8:44 [PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial sysfs support for omap clock framework Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-16 8:57 ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-16 13:20 ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-16 16:58 ` David Brownell
2008-04-16 20:51 ` Tony Lindgren
2008-04-17 14:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial debugfs " Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-17 14:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Remove procfs entry for debugging " Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-17 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial debugfs support for omap " Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 18:40 ` David Brownell
2008-04-17 18:45 ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 18:54 ` David Brownell
2008-04-17 19:17 ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 18:57 ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-17 19:14 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-04-17 19:44 ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 19:49 ` Igor Stoppa
2008-04-17 20:47 ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 21:22 ` David Brownell
2008-04-18 7:08 ` Igor Stoppa
2008-04-17 19:58 ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-21 18:40 ` Tony Lindgren
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