Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] fpga manager: add sysfs interface document

[Pantelis Antoniou]

Hi Pavel,

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 22:56 , Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Fri 2015-01-09 13:14:24, atull wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue 2015-01-06 14:13:37, atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> +
>>>> +What:		/sys/class/fpga_manager/<fpga>/firmware
>>>> +Date:		October 2014
>>>> +KernelVersion:	3.18
>>>> +Contact:	Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> +Description:	Name of the FPGA image file to load using firmware
>>>> class.
>>> 
>>> This one is ugly: it unneccessarily passes firmware name through the
>>> kernel. Just make interface and code simpler by always passing
>>> "socfpga-fpga-image" or something like that.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 									Pavel
>> 
>> Hi Pavel,
>> 
>> It might be ugly.  It's not unnecessary.  Some uses of FPGAs involve
>> switching out the FPGA images dynamically under control of the userspace.
> 
> Then configure udev to load right firmware for you, or ln -s
> image-i-want-now socfpga-fpga-image to select the one to readâ?
> 

Who said that udev is going to be available in the kind of system this is going to end in?

Doing ln -s tricks to load a different image? Really?

I say the interface is fine as it is.

Regards

â Pantelis

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