On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 19 October 2012 19:46, Christoffer Dall
> <c.d...@virtualopensystems.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> This doesn't say whether userspace is allowed to make this ioctl
>>> multiple times for the same device. This could be any of:
>>>  * undefined behaviour
>>>  * second call fails with some errno
>>>  * second call overrides first one
>>>
>>
>> I added an error condition EEXIST, but since this is trying to not be
>> arm-vgic specific this is really up to the individual device - maybe
>> we can have some polymorphic device that moves around later.
>>
>>> It also doesn't say that you're supposed to call this after CREATE
>>> and before INIT of the irqchip. (Nor does it say what happens if
>>> you call it at some other time.)
>>>
>>
>> same non-device specific argument as above.
>
> We could have a section in the docs that says "On ARM platforms
> there are devices X and Y and they have such-and-such properties
> and requirements" [and other devices later can have further docs
> as appropriate].
>
sure, I can add that.

-Christoffer
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