On Sat 2015-01-10 10:10:51, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > 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 read…? > > > > Who said that udev is going to be available in the kind of system this is going to end in? Noone. > Doing ln -s tricks to load a different image? Really? But if you don't have udev, you can do ln -s. It is better than open-coding symlink functionality into /sys/class/fpga_manager/<fpga>/firmware ... cause that's what this is. Actually, clean implementation of "firmware" would be symlink in sysfs; but I'd say that would be overdoing it. > I say the interface is fine as it is. I say it is not. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
