On 9.9.2018 21:20, Moritz Fischer wrote: > Hi Olof, > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Olof Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jolly Shah <[email protected]> wrote: >>> From: Rajan Vaja <[email protected]> >>> >>> Add ZynqMP firmware IOCTL API to control and configure >>> devices like PLLs, SD, Gem, etc. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <[email protected]> >>> Signed-off-by: Jolly Shah <[email protected]> >> >> This patch worries me somewhat. It's a transparent pass-through ioctl >> driver. Is there a spec available for what the implemented IOCTLs are? >> >> Should some of them be proper drivers instead of an opaque >> pass-through like this? Could some of them have stability impact on >> the platform such that there are security concerns and the list of >> arguments should somehow be sanitized? > > I tend to agree with this, good catch. > >> What's the intended usecase anyway? Just a debug tool during >> development, or something that you expect heavy use of by some >> userspace middleware? > > I suspect it is another attempt to make userspace clocks/plls work? Scary.
none is trying to do that as far as I know. Thanks, Michal
