Re: [PATCH v3] parisc: Fix crash due alternative coding for NP iopdir_fdc bit

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Hi,

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:28:12PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > FWIW, i hacked up a small driver to read the firmware, i'm attaching it
> > to this
> > Mail. Would be nice if some people could try reading the firmware from
> > their PA-RISC
> > system so we can collect and archive them. Note that it HPMC's in 32 Bit
> > Mode,
> > but it worked in 64 Bit mode on my C3750/J5000.
> 
> Nice!
> [..]
> Any particular reason you are not simply using BIN_ATTR_RO?

The reason is just my missing experience with Kernel APIs. If anyone says such
a driver is helpful in the upstream kernel, we could clean it up. But for now
i just wanted to get the contents of the flash, no matter how nice the code is

:-)

Regards
Sven



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