Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753935Ab1DBKgD (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2011 06:36:03 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:58047 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767Ab1DBKgC (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2011 06:36:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:35:50 +0200 From: Wolfram Sang To: "Hans J. Koch" Cc: Grant Likely , Michal Simek , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, john.williams@petalogix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjk@linutronix.de, gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support Message-ID: <20110402103550.GA21760@pengutronix.de> References: <1301574600-4861-1-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu> <1301574600-4861-2-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu> <20110331124925.GA2202@pengutronix.de> <4D948189.9070606@monstr.eu> <20110331170321.GA2734@local> <4D94C09B.4070506@monstr.eu> <20110331192302.GD2734@local> <20110331203024.GE2734@local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110331203024.GE2734@local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: wsa@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 48 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > For UIO, it is not enough to just know "we have this chip using that driv= er", > at least not for a generic driver like the one proposed in this patch. So, what about setting this string to a default (e.g. '0' or 'generic' or whatever). Then, userspace knows this is the unmodified upstream version of= the generic driver. If the generic driver is not sufficent for a user and he patches it, he can simply patch the version string, too? Or can we use the notifiers to set up an individual version? That could als= o be the place to do special board-setup connected to the selected version. Regards, Wolfram --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2W/AYACgkQD27XaX1/VRuDygCgpTl0PepbmFDomLwo6mHFrVeJ tbsAoLvL5Q4tc3hduZa4d7KkVrlUkxgt =gUVi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz-- -- 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/