On 20 January 2016 at 19:03, H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 20.01.2016 um 18:46 schrieb One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> The problem is that *I* have no control over user space. But I also don't want >>> to say to my users "that is not my problem - get it solved yourself". This does >>> not help them. >> >> Stuffing things into the kernel because the user space of a given >> platform can't get itself organised isn't helpful to the other billion >> plus Linux devices out there. > > The assumption that there is "the" user space of a given platform is wrong. I'm a bit surprised at the arguments being exchanged here regarding why the kernel may or may not deal with the detail that a (say) BT chip is behind a uart. I would have expected that the main (and IMO sufficient) reason why the kernel should do it is because the particular bus used to connect a BT chip to the CPU is a hw detail that a kernel that does its job should keep to itself. Same as userspace not needing to care if a BT chip is behind SDIO or USB, why does it have to tell the kernel behind which UART a BT chip is sitting? Regards, Tomeu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
