linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regmap: Add a config option for making regmap debugfs writable

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Message-ID: <20151205164900.GC26072@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 5 Dec 2015 16:49:00 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: Add a config option for making regmap debugfs
 writable

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 05:37:09PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2015-10-13 21:07:00, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This is exactly the sort of use case this feature is intended for, and
> > is the sort of situation where a custom kernel is not going to be any
> > kind of practical problem.

> Well.. we support iopl(0) and we have /dev/mem. I don't see how this
> is different.

It's not clear to me that those are especially good ideas that we want
to encourage people to use.

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