On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:01:36 -0800 Philip Prindeville <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> On 1/17/11 1:17 AM, Imre Kaloz wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:15:19 +0100, Philip Prindeville > > <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: > > > >> The soloscli utility is useful for setting parameters on the FPGA > >> that aren't accessible via module parameters. > >> > >> It doesn't do much good to have the kernel driver without this > >> utility. > > > > Sure, but a kernel module should never depend on a userspace > > program. Make it the other way around, and include it in the > > profile. > > > > Imre > > Thinking about this some more... The Solos chips come on a PCI card, > so any device with a PCI slot could have the solos card as well (the > Geos happens to have it on the SBC). > > So I could build a net5501 (which has PCI) with the kmod-solos and > still forget to include soloscli. > > It would be nice to specify that all solos h/w support also pulls in > the soloscli user utility. Sorry Philip, I've been talking about it with the other devs the change has been reverted. This is really a user knowledge issue, not a true dependency (conceivably other userspace tools could be created and used as well). In addition it creates a circular dependency because the soloscli already depends on the module. The real answer here to educate users or fix the driver. Regards, Daniel -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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