Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755078AbaLHMmi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2014 07:42:38 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f178.google.com ([209.85.213.178]:56462 "EHLO mail-ig0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753148AbaLHMmg (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2014 07:42:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1503477.DVdkExccIe@wuerfel> References: <1416220572-13381-1-git-send-email-ankit.jindal@linaro.org> <2279061.naADrHDgyn@wuerfel> <1503477.DVdkExccIe@wuerfel> From: Ankit Jindal Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:12:15 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] Documentation: dt-bindings: Add binding info for X-Gene QMTM UIO driver To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Varka Bhadram , Russell King - ARM Linux , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Anup Patel , Guenter Roeck , "patches@apm.com" , Rob Herring , "Hans J. Koch" , Tushar Jagad , Kumar Gala , =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=C3=A4rber?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18 November 2014 at 18:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2014 14:59:54 Ankit Jindal wrote: >> On 17 November 2014 16:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Monday 17 November 2014 16:06:11 Ankit Jindal wrote: >> >> + >> >> + qmtm1_uio: qmtm_uio@1f200000 { >> >> + compatible = "apm,xgene-qmtm"; >> >> + status = "disabled"; >> >> + reg = <0x0 0x1f200000 0x0 0x10000>, >> >> + <0x0 0x1b000000 0x0 0x400000>; >> >> + reg-names = "csr", "fabric"; >> >> + qpool-memory = <&qmtm1_uio_qpool>; >> >> + clocks = <&qmtm1clk 0>; >> >> + num-queues = <0x400>; >> >> + devid = <1>; >> >> + }; >> >> + >> > >> > To make my previous review comments clearer: >> > >> > NAK >> > >> > Do not create device nodes that are meant for a specific use case in >> > software and that are not usable for the common case. I don't think >> > it makes any sense to keep on submitting a UIO driver for this until >> > we have a proper network driver that uses this so we can make sure we >> > have a working binding. >> >> The dataplane frameworks like OpenDataPlane etc, need to have access >> to complete subsystem from the user space. Hence, we would like to >> have this driver and some other UIO drivers to be the part of kernel >> to have data plane frameworks working on our platform. > > Please work with the people that do the in-kernel QMTM driver to come > up with a common binding then. Thanks Arnd, I have synced with them, and in future our dt bindings for this device is going to be inline with the one mentioned in the patchset. > > Arnd Thanks, Ankit -- 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/