From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Walleij Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: Add driver for Zynq GPIO controller Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:57:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1403091577-10232-1-git-send-email-harinik@xilinx.com> <5cc8b89b-20ff-4fa9-92dd-bb2f6d3512d8@BY2FFO11FD030.protection.gbl> <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?S=C3=B6ren_Brinkmann?= Cc: Harini Katakam , Alexandre Courbot , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , "ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" , Kumar Gala , Rob Landley , Michal Simek , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Harini Katakam , Harini Katakam List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:55 PM, S=C3=B6ren Brinkmann 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 i= t > as great progress if things like the sysfs interface are used instead= =2E 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752415AbaGJI5V (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:57:21 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.219.53]:44448 "EHLO mail-oa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751539AbaGJI5R convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:57:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl> References: <1403091577-10232-1-git-send-email-harinik@xilinx.com> <5cc8b89b-20ff-4fa9-92dd-bb2f6d3512d8@BY2FFO11FD030.protection.gbl> <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:57:16 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: Add driver for Zynq GPIO controller From: Linus Walleij To: =?UTF-8?Q?S=C3=B6ren_Brinkmann?= Cc: Harini Katakam , Alexandre Courbot , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , "ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" , Kumar Gala , Rob Landley , Michal Simek , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Harini Katakam , Harini Katakam Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Sören Brinkmann 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linus.walleij@linaro.org (Linus Walleij) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:57:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: Add driver for Zynq GPIO controller In-Reply-To: <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl> References: <1403091577-10232-1-git-send-email-harinik@xilinx.com> <5cc8b89b-20ff-4fa9-92dd-bb2f6d3512d8@BY2FFO11FD030.protection.gbl> <3adb614c-38ae-4b0c-9e50-99f071bbf4c5@BL2FFO11FD038.protection.gbl> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:55 PM, S?ren Brinkmann 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