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Subject: Re: mmio_nvram.c users ?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 07:00 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:43:59PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >Hi folks !
> >
> >Anybody aware of anything other than Cell using that driver ?
> >
> >I'd like to make it a platform driver instead of having something that
> >pokes at anything that has a "device_type" set to "nvram" (which is
> >gross and bogus). But I need to know what platforms to fixup...
> 
> Why bother?  You could just use either drivers/mtd/devices/{phram.c or slram.c}
> and get the same functionality at that point, couldn't you?

Won't that break existing userspace ?

Cheers,
Ben.