Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] Documentation: dt-bindings: Add binding info for X-Gene QMTM UIO driver

[Ankit Jindal <ankit.jindal@linaro.org>]

On 18 November 2014 at 18:40, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2014 14:59:54 Ankit Jindal wrote:
>> On 17 November 2014 16:47, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> > On Monday 17 November 2014 16:06:11 Ankit Jindal wrote:
>> >> +
>> >> +       qmtm1_uio: qmtm_uio@1f200000 {
>> >> +               compatible = "apm,xgene-qmtm";
>> >> +               status = "disabled";
>> >> +               reg = <0x0 0x1f200000 0x0 0x10000>,
>> >> +                     <0x0 0x1b000000 0x0 0x400000>;
>> >> +               reg-names = "csr", "fabric";
>> >> +               qpool-memory = <&qmtm1_uio_qpool>;
>> >> +               clocks = <&qmtm1clk 0>;
>> >> +               num-queues = <0x400>;
>> >> +               devid = <1>;
>> >> +       };
>> >> +
>> >
>> > To make my previous review comments clearer:
>> >
>> > NAK
>> >
>> > Do not create device nodes that are meant for a specific use case in
>> > software and that are not usable for the common case. I don't think
>> > it makes any sense to keep on submitting a UIO driver for this until
>> > we have a proper network driver that uses this so we can make sure we
>> > have a working binding.
>>
>> The dataplane frameworks like OpenDataPlane etc, need to have access
>> to complete subsystem from the user space. Hence, we would like to
>> have this driver and some other UIO drivers to be the part of kernel
>> to have data plane frameworks working on our platform.
>
> Please work with the people that do the in-kernel QMTM driver to come
> up with a common binding then.
Thanks Arnd, I have synced with them, and in future our dt bindings
for this device is going to be inline with the one mentioned in the
patchset.
>
>         Arnd
Thanks,
Ankit