Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752906AbaJTIXe (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:23:34 -0400 Received: from sauhun.de ([89.238.76.85]:53323 "EHLO pokefinder.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752721AbaJTIXc (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:23:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:24:22 +0200 From: Wolfram Sang To: Andreas Werner Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, johannes.thumshirn@men.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/misc/eeprom/men_eeprod: Introduce MEN Board Information EEPROM driver Message-ID: <20141020082421.GB1413@katana> References: <20141016085835.GA1273@katana> <20141016102126.GB23256@awelinux> <20141016095910.GC1273@katana> <20141016114401.GA22506@awelinux> <20141020081822.GA1413@katana> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141020081822.GA1413@katana> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Here it gets frustrating. It seems you have no idea what an OS is for, > not even after I tried to describe it :( Sorry, that might have been too strong. Still, we can't map any hardware which is out there 1:1 into userspace, we need abstraction. If you want to help with this abstraction, this is more than appreciated. If you want to keep your driver, this will have to stay out-of-tree, I'm afraid. Regards, Wolfram --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJURMa1AAoJEBQN5MwUoCm2sMwP/3ijvRY/1WZ9LSLQ0ncC3MUw //e/bLnFYf5bI+feV2CMFeHRvPiwgM2dRwn80gdQmhEbuqMd0wXy/igbskeSQXOT Vl7iU7Yw/56xxlrc/E5yE3doVUX5N5tdWKMBA2cAjM0M4UQEllBN326OtRj1k1Wu X5GzyFhvYqWqLWV0/Zio7hTOY+UquhojKDwL1K06DFJeUnAf+raKSaP/x8gm3pwT aCgGKNUvUa6/P1bii7CSEUvkqtOPngeMPHadzRfrfSxKRi6mcO9Ka7w2cNlItEfE Z/SEhLl//qORlH1JFkzj2Ygw8lMcVBZ5bIw+K78aUtksHdS19erz4Mey86TJ+f16 vqWJ2/niyChvlWDyn9G93o6UY0xv6pENF0hIo83naroY1t5Fp0i8E6JffYuOi+Oe 0HgbJIbpkfoi/acqdFXv37Tz982bNUvmh1bX9l91BPeIpr5MtX/bg9N1ZaSW/Vy6 wEX9xqj2SvoZkRcP8fM3o0FiqTcpi14jgVvKum4C2K9ck2hZKO13RP7XHKn4YRNS BOnWfXUumjC2Pk8YykLlSXSR/D5OKEY3nyM4uLPZhCQfbVuq05SpFqhP0Qhz/qsh b0FSLNKi2eE/B6aU3auqO4c9JqlaHqMUGgF+qVR/pQkQwz+DBO3ZIwlklCGhuM+3 ORe9/iz+Sm8S3UobcRNR =PzeD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX-- -- 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/