From: Andreas Werner <andreas.werner@men.de>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: Andreas Werner <andreas.werner@men.de>,
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>, <johannes.thumshirn@men.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/misc/eeprom/men_eeprod: Introduce MEN Board Information EEPROM driver
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:04:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141020100436.GB523@awelinux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141020082421.GB1413@katana>
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:24:22AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
>
> > Here it gets frustrating. It seems you have no idea what an OS is for,
> > not even after I tried to describe it :(
>
I am pretty sure that i know what an OS is for.
> Sorry, that might have been too strong. Still, we can't map any hardware
> which is out there 1:1 into userspace, we need abstraction.
>
> If you want to help with this abstraction, this is more than
> appreciated. If you want to keep your driver, this will have to stay
> out-of-tree, I'm afraid.
>
Yes, my goal is to find a good way to get hardware support upstream, and
it is also nice to discuss my point of view with your upstream point of few.
And yes, i want to help to find a way to develope an abstraction.
Regards
Andy
> Regards,
>
> Wolfram
>
>
> * Unknown Key
> * 0x14A029B6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-20 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-16 8:14 [PATCH 0/2] Introduce MEN Board Information EEPROM driver Andreas Werner
2014-10-16 8:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] drivers/misc/eeprom/men_eeprod: " Andreas Werner
2014-10-16 8:44 ` Greg KH
2014-10-16 10:11 ` Andreas Werner
2014-10-16 8:58 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-10-16 9:34 ` Greg KH
2014-10-16 9:48 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-10-16 10:21 ` Andreas Werner
2014-10-16 9:59 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-10-16 11:44 ` Andreas Werner
2014-10-20 8:18 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-10-20 8:24 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-10-20 10:04 ` Andreas Werner [this message]
2014-10-20 8:33 ` Andreas Werner
2014-10-20 9:11 ` Greg KH
2014-10-20 10:09 ` Andreas Werner
2014-10-21 6:57 ` Igor Grinberg
2014-10-16 8:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/ABI/testing/men_eeprod: Added sysfs description for men_eeprod Andreas Werner
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