Re: [PATCH] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support

[Wolfram Sang]

>    Maybe I misunderstand you, in my view it is the responsibility of <vendor>
>    to create their DTS files to indicate they want <special-card1> to bind to
>    generic-uio.

Device tree is a OS-neutral hardware description language. "generic-uio"
is neither OS-neutral nor a hardware description. devicetree.org has
more information about this.

>    Our use-case is pretty clear, in FPGA-based systems it is common to create
>    arbitrary devices that developers just want to control from userspace,
>    with simple IRQ and IO capabilities (DMA can come later :). ïThey don't
>    need to bind to other kernel APIs or subsystems, and don't want to invest
>    in one-off kernel drivers that simply will never go upstream.

For that, the new_compatible-file would be suitable, I think.

>    UIO is perfect, and simply tagging the device as generic-uio in the DTS is
>    so simple, clean, and elegant.

Simple, yes (I do understand I wrote the first approach ;)) . Elegant,
not really, because it breaks core conventions of the device tree. For
your case it is a very conveniant hack, but it is still a hack.

Regards,

   Wolfram

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