On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 08:43 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:29:09AM +1100, Cyril Bur wrote: > > This driver exposes a reserved chunk of BMC ram to userspace as > > well as > > an ioctl interface to control the BMC<->HOST mapping of the LPC > > bus. > > This allows for a communication channel between the BMC and the > > host > > Why not make this a UIO driver? Why does it have to be a character > device? See my other email (looks like I'm getting things in reverse order today ;-), basically it should just be some ioctl's, but what they do should really be done by the kernel as it controls external access to part of the chip physical address space. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
