From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: mmio_nvram.c users ?
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 09:41:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100529134143.GL24511@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275104704.1931.528.camel@pasglop>
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:45:04PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>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 ?
Probably. Maybe we shouldn't have duplicated a driver in our platform code to
begin with.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-29 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-25 7:43 mmio_nvram.c users ? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-25 8:41 ` Adrian Reber
2010-05-25 8:43 ` Martyn Welch
2010-05-25 11:00 ` Josh Boyer
2010-05-29 3:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-29 13:41 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2010-05-29 23:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-30 0:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-30 5:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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