From: gregkh@linuxfoundation•org (Greg KH)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: devicetree: add description for generic bus properties
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:37:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131129173701.GA5635@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131129114453.GC21336@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:44:53AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:25:28PM +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 07:39:17PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:13:31AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Yes it is, you all are the ones tasked with implementing the crazy crap
> > > > the hardware people have created, best of luck with that :)
> > >
> > > Agreed. The first assumption should be that we can fit in with the
> > > existing device model -- we should only reconsider if we find that
> > > to be impossible.
> >
> > Let me know if you think it is somehow impossible, but you all should
> > really push back on the insane hardware designers that are forcing you
> > all to do this work. I find it "interesting" how this all becomes your
> > workload for their crazy ideas.
>
> Oh, I don't think we're claiming anything is impossible here :) It's more
> that we will probably want to make some changes to the device model to allow,
> for example, a device to be associated with multiple buses of potentially
> different types.
Why would you want that? What good would that help with?
> Step one is to get the DT binding sorted, then we can try and get Linux to
> make use of it. This goes hand-in-hand with the IOMMU discussion going on
> here:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-November/210401.html
>
> which is one of the issues that is hitting us right now.
Interesting how people seem to not know how to cc: the needed
maintainers when they touch core code :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-29 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-27 17:28 [RFC PATCH] Documentation: devicetree: add description for generic bus properties Dave Martin
2013-11-27 23:06 ` Greg KH
2013-11-28 10:28 ` Will Deacon
2013-11-28 17:33 ` Dave Martin
2013-11-28 19:13 ` Greg KH
2013-11-28 19:39 ` Dave Martin
2013-11-28 21:25 ` Greg KH
2013-11-29 11:44 ` Will Deacon
2013-11-29 17:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-11-29 18:01 ` Will Deacon
2013-11-29 18:11 ` Greg KH
2013-11-29 18:15 ` Will Deacon
2013-11-28 19:10 ` Greg KH
2013-11-28 20:33 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-28 21:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-28 22:22 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-28 23:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-29 2:35 ` Greg KH
2013-11-29 9:37 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-29 9:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-29 10:43 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-29 13:13 ` Dave Martin
2013-11-29 13:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-29 17:43 ` Greg KH
2013-11-29 17:42 ` Greg KH
2013-11-29 19:45 ` Thierry Reding
2013-12-04 18:43 ` Mark Brown
2013-12-04 19:03 ` Greg KH
2013-12-04 20:27 ` Mark Brown
2013-11-29 9:57 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-29 14:13 ` Dave Martin
2013-11-29 11:58 ` Dave Martin
2013-11-29 18:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-12-02 20:25 ` Dave Martin
2013-12-03 0:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-12-03 11:45 ` Dave Martin
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