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.
> So... here's the port to recent kernels. Not for mainline. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]> > 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! Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
