Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 08:33:03 +0200
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Richardson <jonathar@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Darren Edamura <dedamura@broadcom.com>,
        One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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        Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: Add initial Digital Timing Engine (DTE) driver
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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:38:02PM -0700, Jonathan Richardson wrote:
> 
> Richard, this design isn't going to work. We need to have both kernel
> and user space consumers.

But you did not implement even a single kernel consumer.

> We don't want all GPIO's in a common timestamp
> buffer either, as it presents problems I mentioned previously. Currently
> the network input is a gpio.

That won't work.  Consider what happens when the MAC drops a packet.

> After some discussion here I think we'll
> have to keep this driver out of the kernel for now.

Fine with me.

Thanks,
Richard
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