From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: mauro.lima@eclypsium.com
Cc: broonie@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com,
Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] spi: intel: Remove DANGEROUS tag from pci driver
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 14:52:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230207135254.2465816-1-michael@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230206183143.75274-2-mauro.lima@eclypsium.com>
> Modern CPUs exposes this controller as PCI device that only uses
> hardware sequencing capabilities which is safer than software
> sequencing.
> Leave the platform driver as *DANGEROUS* and update help text since
> most of these controllers are using software sequencing.
Out of curiosity, what is hardware sequencing? Maybe this should
be explained a bit more in the Kconfig help text. Looks like the
dangerous was there because you can update the bios and that
could eventually lead to a bricked mainboard. So hardware
sequencing helps there? how?
-michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-07 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-06 18:31 [PATCH 0/1] spi: intel: Remove DANGEROUS tag from pci driver Mauro Lima
2023-02-06 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Mauro Lima
2023-02-07 5:56 ` Mika Westerberg
2023-02-07 13:52 ` Michael Walle [this message]
2023-02-07 14:03 ` Mika Westerberg
2023-02-07 14:11 ` Michael Walle
2023-02-07 14:45 ` Mika Westerberg
2023-02-07 20:44 ` Mauro Lima
2023-02-07 11:51 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Mark Brown
2023-02-07 15:06 ` Mark Brown
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