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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:13:00 +1000 From: John Williams <john.williams@...alogix.com> To: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>, w.sang@...gutronix.de, magnus.damm@...il.com, hjk@...utronix.de, gregkh@...e.de, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org> Subject: UIO / of_genirq driver Hi, I came across this thread/patchset from around June last year: http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-June/073086.html where Wolfgang proposed a generic OF-driven UIO driver. The discussion seemed to stall after Grant Likely indicated he didn't like the use of a linux-specific compatible binding in the device tree (compatible="generic-uio"). I guess I have a couple of questions: * did this patchset go anywhere? I've been using it here the last few days and it works great. and more generally: * Is there a better way to handle the OF bindings for this sort of thing? Grant's complaint seems to come up often - when you have generic controllers in a system (SPI/I2C also spring to mind), we need a way of signalling somehow to the kernel that each instance has a particular usage intended. However, the device-tree guys complain whenever anyone tries to encode anything non-hardware related into the DTS itself. I guess I'd like to just open up a discussion, see if there's been any progress towards a general solution. Thanks, John -- John Williams PetaLogix - Linux Solutions for a Reconfigurable World w: www.petalogix.com p: +61-7-30090663 f: +61-7-30090663 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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