linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] drivers/misc: add rawio framework driver

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Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:45:38 +0100
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Bin Gao <bin.gao@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] drivers/misc: add rawio framework driver

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:03:20PM -0700, Bin Gao wrote:
> Rawio provides a framework to read/write registers from a bus, including
> pci, i2c, I/O device(memory mapped), etc. based on debug fs.
> Rawio bus drivers implement the read/write operation on a specific bus
> on top of the rawio framework driver.
> They are designed to help device driver and kernel debugging on
> embedded systems.

Oh, one more technical thing, you totally fail to document the
user/kernel api you have just created.  You are parsing userspace data
in ways that I really don't understand at all...

greg k-h
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