On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 03:07:58PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-12-03, Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote:
> >> So I can avoid my local hack to macb_main.c by doing a doing a local
> >> hack to macb_main.c?
> >
> > User space drivers were never supported in any meaningful way. The
> > IOCTL call is basically there for mii-tool, and nothing much more.
>
> I probably wouldn't call a single ioctl() to check the link status a
> user-space-driver, but I guess that's what it is. If it's good enough
> for the mii-tool, it's good enough for me.
>
> > The way to avoid your local hack is to move your drivers into the
> > kernel, along side all the other drivers for devices on MDIO busses.
>
> I don't think I can justify the additional effort to devlope and
> maintain a custom kern-space driver.
Why custom? You should contribute it.
> >> Was there some other way I should have done this with a 5.4 kernel
> >> that I was unable to discover?
Ah, i missed you are using 5.4. You should probably jump to 5.10. There
have been quite a few changes in this area in the macb driver.
>
> BTW Andrew, we're still shipping plenty of product that running
> eCos. :)
Cool. There is still a space for such an RTOS, linux has not yet taken
over the world everywhere.
Andrew
