On Thursday 27 September 2007, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
> This is a patch to support VFD on Celleb 2.
> VFD is a small LCD to show miscellaneous messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The implementation looks fine, but I'm not sure if /proc/ppc64/rtas is the
right way to do it. The two problems I have with this are:
* /proc files are generally not a good idea for new stuff. We carry around
the existing /proc/ppc64/rtas files because we can't change the interface
for existing stuff. My feeling is that your interface should better be
implemented as a character device, or be integrating into some other
existing message interface, if we can find one.
* The firmware seems to implement the generic rtas interface for
display-character and set-indicator, but your driver is celleb specific.
I'd be feel more comfortable if we could come up with a driver that also
works on other systems that implement the same rtas calls.
Arnd <><
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