mmio_nvram.c users ?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat May 29 23:41:43 EST 2010


On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:45:04PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 07:00 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:43:59PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> >Hi folks !
>> >
>> >Anybody aware of anything other than Cell using that driver ?
>> >
>> >I'd like to make it a platform driver instead of having something that
>> >pokes at anything that has a "device_type" set to "nvram" (which is
>> >gross and bogus). But I need to know what platforms to fixup...
>> 
>> Why bother?  You could just use either drivers/mtd/devices/{phram.c or slram.c}
>> and get the same functionality at that point, couldn't you?
>
>Won't that break existing userspace ?

Probably.  Maybe we shouldn't have duplicated a driver in our platform code to
begin with.

josh


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