Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750764AbWLMUiH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:38:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750770AbWLMUiH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:38:07 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:29316 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750764AbWLMUiG (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:38:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OprqMmlW3YhnLubhgiXZ2adGX4IN/48S2Ee7Uj8MPN4v+eQXPI1x6SHX/VUipRfeL5bk0VqlJuLhK3c9iQYEEuOhPuSFrD7/3rjSbHf+q62/5402qY29CmB6JNZG0VUZ7+ZgDDXYRfBN/SN+AzJPS/0nhs56Lo3D2xZjBHRmnFo= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:05 -0800 From: "Michael K. Edwards" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 Cc: "Greg KH" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061213195226.GA6736@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 22 On 12/13/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, what kind of ass-hat idiotic thing is this? C'mon, Linus, tell us how you _really_ feel. Seriously, though, please please pretty please do not allow a facility for "going through a simple interface to get accesses to irqs and memory regions" into the mainline kernel, with or without toy ISA examples. Embedded systems integrators have enough trouble with chip vendors who think that exposing the device registers to userspace constitutes a "driver". The correct description is more like "porting shim for MMU-less RTOS tasks"; and if the BSP vendors of the world can make a nickel supplying them, more power to them. Just not in mainline, please. Cheers, - Michael - 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/