Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751680Ab3EPSWH (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2013 14:22:07 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:57894 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751101Ab3EPSWD (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2013 14:22:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:21:22 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Saravana Kannan Cc: Mike Turquette , Emilio =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?= , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F6ren?= Brinkmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Message-ID: <20130516182122.GG1627@sirena.org.uk> References: <1368207091-32538-1-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> <1368207091-32538-2-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> <518D320C.4010707@elopez.com.ar> <518D411D.9070209@elopez.com.ar> <518D7C45.2090602@codeaurora.org> <20130511142132.GA3200@sirena.org.uk> <51945F27.7010003@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51945F27.7010003@codeaurora.org> X-Cookie: You will have long and healthy life. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 176.12.107.141 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] clk: Introduce userspace clock driver X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2032 Lines: 49 --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:23:03PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote: > On 05/11/2013 07:21 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > >It's much harder when it's in the standard kernel and there's no contact > >with some of the users. I've pushed back pretty strongly on some of > >your equivalent stuff for regulators for this reason. > Agreed. I don't really keep up with what's going on with the MSM regulators. > But at some point, I'll start requesting for this for debugfs. It's > terribly handy to debug power issues, run unit tests and for debug > sessions (debugfs. So, clearly!). Sure, it's handy for debugging - but it's also far too handy for writing silly things in userspace which isn't something we want to encourage. --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRlSOfAAoJELSic+t+oim9qjwP/iQyKtFO9DpMs/6zjbGHAO7U zebCiLVRQGPDOVkMmksD74Ke3XMHQWU2hp/Ew/5sZy16oXgvii8i5Rh9M4Jda65V 6sgUoSEBieCrE4YHkdnCnu1b73fZYBmI4c2Z+4kwxTiNbGkdKaQTRzAzgNuaE8/p Nn4kAJF0RL760nbsSad3ybsOzhAa/HzB1Fouv5hxTP01uls7GarGAXaTvCeYgOmN 15TYI3lLuGiTAA7X7DSGfMjgw1QZ5crAr+QnWbIlt/uWEqXqhs5YUPZXORPHzVIQ /RYWXEZfb1HdydM1hV+Qq5TN2FCXHqcXsvE9quvgOiR0n42Yvde7vUMU/baL+Ux1 8l1x4GRrznqa4qLTaSFDMrlQYhKbi3zVYthPrq7NLbBeXEJiYSgzGwM9HpIWlwBN VwhPYA2GRgoLwbmefCOlrSTXs5hnmPWetVI35Tz/o8XAxnwEOX9tS+uLw/kJuOyI tCPgqIZLAX2hSxej/eK+J9MXwlvlI8AN2WOALuXldygT87SYUThW+KH6wBPzUBiT QXl7uAS/UFveNFdP/8Vrg7vLWS6+3FrX9lmtCfwM+wMYK2d6yhmYA9Jt8bPPoDET HU7zdRLX7uF9rBbsDggasUrY9dGUkvtZbOVEFNFIGHuUHKZ9qHcFAXvyKW2MMRuS LDbwDmylAotenkU6NoKi =uHA9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/