Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/misc/eeprom/men_eeprod: Introduce MEN Board Information EEPROM driver

From: Andreas Werner
Date: Mon Oct 20 2014 - 05:13:33 EST


On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:24:22AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
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> > Here it gets frustrating. It seems you have no idea what an OS is for,
> > not even after I tried to describe it :(
>

I am pretty sure that i know what an OS is for.

> Sorry, that might have been too strong. Still, we can't map any hardware
> which is out there 1:1 into userspace, we need abstraction.
>
> If you want to help with this abstraction, this is more than
> appreciated. If you want to keep your driver, this will have to stay
> out-of-tree, I'm afraid.
>

Yes, my goal is to find a good way to get hardware support upstream, and
it is also nice to discuss my point of view with your upstream point of few.

And yes, i want to help to find a way to develope an abstraction.

Regards
Andy


> Regards,
>
> Wolfram
>
>
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