On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:50:04AM -0700, Bin Gao wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:14:00AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > > > You can already do this today for PCI with the UIO framework, right? > > > Why duplicate that functionality here with another userapce API that we > > > will then have to maintain for the next 40+ years? > > > > > Same for i2c, where the same functionality is supported through i2c-tools > > and > > the i2c-dev driver. Adding i2c-tools to initramfs and/or to the root file > > system > > should not be that much of an issue, much less than having to maintain two > > APIs > > for the same purpose. > > > > Guenter > > For PCI and memory mapped I/O devices, we have the runtime pm issue that has > to > be addressed from kernel space.
Then create a UIO pci driver and you should be fine, right? That's what others do today and it works quite well for them. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
