linux-kernel - Re: a case for a common efuse API?

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Message-ID: <CAOesGMipEeB9SxF7dsmwEXi6+_vJvaikFO5yUsqr6fxp8pTv1w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 13:26:34 -0700
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: a case for a common efuse API?

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:

> I added Tegra folks because I see that on Tegra this hardware is exposed
> via an SoC specific API, tegra_fuse_readl(), and an associated driver in
> drivers/misc/fuse/tegra/. Unfortunately I don't see any users of the API
> outside of the speedo code in the same directory and the sysfs bin
> attribute that may or may not be in use by some userspace code.

Note that I also turned down the pull request that houses the code
under drivers/misc.

This is the type of stuff we've been talking about needing a home for
somewhere, and drivers/soc was one of the ones mentioned for that. I
really don't like adding dependencies on a random driver from platform
code, for example.


-Olof
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