Re: UIO device tree bindings.

[Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>]

On Mon 2013-04-01 19:42:12, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:40:08PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2013-04-01 16:23:36, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I'd like to get uio device tree bindings to work -- with recent FPGA
> > > parts it will be important. Latest version I see is 
> > > 
> > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-June/073087.html
> > > 
> > > ... Is there anything newer?
> > > 
> > > I red the discussion, and main problem seems to be the "tell kernel to
> > > drive this device tree device", right?
> > 
> Problem seems to be the notion that the proposed devicetree entry would not
> describe the hardware, but its use. Not really sure I understand the problem,
> as I would see the hardware description to be "A hardware device which is
> compatible to and managed by the generic-uio driver". I would argue that
> this _is_ a hardware description (if not, what is ?), but I am not the one
> to make the call.

Well... one could argue that having "generic-uio" in board's device
tree _is_ wrong, but having driver that binds to "generic-uio" is
not. Hmm?

Or maybe we can do some magic with module parameter. That should be
enough for expected use.

> > So... here's the port to recent kernels. Not for mainline.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
> > 
> Turns out this is exactly what I need, and your post saves me the time
> I would have spent writing essentially the same code and submitting it,
> only to have it rejected.
> 
> Thanks a lot for digging this up!

You are welcome :-). Thanks for helping with testing ;-).
									Pavel
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