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Simon Que9a69f502018-06-29 22:49:38 -04001This is a list of things that need to be done to get this driver out of the
2staging directory.
Ahmed S. Darwish38358412018-09-10 15:28:37 +00003
4- Implement the gasket framework's functionality through UIO instead of
5 introducing a new user-space drivers framework that is quite similar.
6
7 UIO provides the necessary bits to implement user-space drivers. Meanwhile
8 the gasket APIs adds some extra conveniences like PCI BAR mapping, and
9 MSI interrupts. Add these features to the UIO subsystem, then re-implement
10 the Apex driver as a basic UIO driver instead (include/linux/uio_driver.h)
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Simon Que9a69f502018-06-29 22:49:38 -040012- Document sysfs files with Documentation/ABI/ entries.
Ahmed S. Darwish38358412018-09-10 15:28:37 +000013
Simon Que9a69f502018-06-29 22:49:38 -040014- Use misc interface instead of major number for driver version description.
Ahmed S. Darwish38358412018-09-10 15:28:37 +000015
Simon Que9a69f502018-06-29 22:49:38 -040016- Add descriptions of module_param's
Ahmed S. Darwish38358412018-09-10 15:28:37 +000017
Simon Que9a69f502018-06-29 22:49:38 -040018- apex_get_status() should actually check status.
Ahmed S. Darwish38358412018-09-10 15:28:37 +000019
Simon Que9a69f502018-06-29 22:49:38 -040020- "drivers" should never be dealing with "raw" sysfs calls or mess around with
21 kobjects at all. The driver core should handle all of this for you
22 automaically. There should not be a need for raw attribute macros.