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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: "Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@xilinx.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
	"linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Harini Katakam <harinikatakamlinux@gmail.com>,
	Harini Katakam <harinik@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: Add driver for Zynq GPIO controller
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:57:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdZb1jDh2_bAvjj5SPsG3k4Sr8nTEjiVR29dNx9rS5a0_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl>

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Sören Brinkmann
<soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> wrote:

> I fully agree and you don't have to convince me. But to a lot of our
> customers that are used to use FPGAs, SOCs and Linux are pretty new. You
> see a lot of scary stuff. Accessing /dev/mem seems to be a lot of
> people's big hammer solution for everything. Then I always perceive it
> as great progress if things like the sysfs interface are used instead.

Well as upstream maintainer I really don't differentiate on the level
of badness of different bad solutions, none of them are really helpful
to the community, only to some specific user, so they get to carry the
quirks...

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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From: linus.walleij@linaro.org (Linus Walleij)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: Add driver for Zynq GPIO controller
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:57:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdZb1jDh2_bAvjj5SPsG3k4Sr8nTEjiVR29dNx9rS5a0_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl>

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:55 PM, S?ren Brinkmann
<soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> wrote:

> I fully agree and you don't have to convince me. But to a lot of our
> customers that are used to use FPGAs, SOCs and Linux are pretty new. You
> see a lot of scary stuff. Accessing /dev/mem seems to be a lot of
> people's big hammer solution for everything. Then I always perceive it
> as great progress if things like the sysfs interface are used instead.

Well as upstream maintainer I really don't differentiate on the level
of badness of different bad solutions, none of them are really helpful
to the community, only to some specific user, so they get to carry the
quirks...

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-10  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-18 11:39 [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: Add driver for Zynq GPIO controller Harini Katakam
2014-06-18 11:39 ` Harini Katakam
2014-06-18 11:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] devicetree: Add Zynq GPIO devicetree bindings documentation Harini Katakam
2014-06-18 11:39   ` Harini Katakam
2014-07-07 14:53   ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 14:53     ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 17:35     ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-07 17:35       ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-07 17:35       ` Sören Brinkmann
     [not found] ` <1403091577-10232-1-git-send-email-harinik-gjFFaj9aHVfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-18 15:36   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: Add driver for Zynq GPIO controller Sören Brinkmann
2014-06-18 15:36     ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-06-18 15:36     ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-07 14:51     ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 14:51       ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 14:51       ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 15:23       ` Baruch Siach
2014-07-07 15:23         ` Baruch Siach
2014-07-07 15:23         ` Baruch Siach
2014-07-08  9:27         ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-08  9:27           ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-11  6:28           ` Baruch Siach
2014-07-11  6:28             ` Baruch Siach
2014-07-11 12:06             ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-11 12:06               ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-11 12:06               ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-11 12:27               ` Baruch Siach
2014-07-11 12:27                 ` Baruch Siach
2014-07-11 12:38                 ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-11 12:38                   ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 16:08       ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-07 16:08         ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-07 16:08         ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-08  9:34         ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-08  9:34           ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-08  9:34           ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-08 15:55           ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-08 15:55             ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-08 15:55             ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-10  8:57             ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2014-07-10  8:57               ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-10  8:57               ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 14:45 ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 14:45   ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-07 17:33   ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-07 17:33     ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-07-07 17:33     ` Sören Brinkmann

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