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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:06:40 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/scom: Replace debugfs interface with cleaner
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:18:35PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The debugfs interface was essentially unused, and racy for anything
> other than manual use by a developer. This provides a more useful
> sysfs based one which can be used by programs without racing with
> each other essentially by providing a file to read/write with an
> offset being the scom address << 8.

Don't you mean address << 3 (or address * 8)?

Paul.