linux-kernel - Re: MXS persistent bits driver

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:24:13 +0200
From:	"maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com" <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@...i.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"fabio.estevam@...escale.com" <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>,
	Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>, cb@...c.de
Subject: Re: MXS persistent bits driver

Hi Hector,

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:30:34AM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Linux 2.6.35 had a driver for sysfs access to the MXS persistent
> bits (drivers/misc/mxs-persistent.c).

Freescale's 2.6.35 I suspect, right?

> I haven't seen this is supported upstream. Is anybody working on that?
> Where would such a driver fit?

Christoph Baumann recently started porting the Freescale's driver to
newer release.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/181569.html

This needs quite a lot of work, but it's ongoing.

Also, about where to put such a driver, I started a discussion about
this last week. Mostly, that would be part of MTD, from what is out of
the discussion so far.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/182002.html

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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