linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] coresight-stm: adding driver for CoreSight STM component

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <87ioed6lhk.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:27:35 +0200
From:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	zhang.chunyan@...aro.org, kaixu.xia@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] coresight-stm: adding driver for CoreSight STM component

Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org> writes:

> From: Pratik Patel <pratikp@...eaurora.org>
>
> This driver adds support for the STM CoreSight IP block,
> allowing any system compoment (HW or SW) to log and
> aggregate messages via a single entity.
>
> The STM exposes an application defined number of channels
> called stimulus port.  Configuration is done using entries
> in sysfs and channels made available to userspace via devfs.

I somehow missed it when it was posted, but anyway. It looks like we are
solving a very similar problem (the STM device) and I'd like to propose
a generic and architecture independent solution [1]. I also took the
liberty to copy you and Pratik on those patches.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/7/99

Regards,
--
Alex
--
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/