[PATCH v11 03/11] firmware: xilinx: Add zynqmp IOCTL API for device control
From: moritz.fischer@ettus.com (Moritz Fischer)
Date: 2018-09-09 19:20:21
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linux-clk, linux-devicetree, lkml
From: moritz.fischer@ettus.com (Moritz Fischer)
Date: 2018-09-09 19:20:21
Also in:
linux-clk, linux-devicetree, lkml
Hi Olof, On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Olof Johansson [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi, On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jolly Shah [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
From: Rajan Vaja <redacted> Add ZynqMP firmware IOCTL API to control and configure devices like PLLs, SD, Gem, etc. Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jolly Shah <redacted>This patch worries me somewhat. It's a transparent pass-through ioctl driver. Is there a spec available for what the implemented IOCTLs are? Should some of them be proper drivers instead of an opaque pass-through like this? Could some of them have stability impact on the platform such that there are security concerns and the list of arguments should somehow be sanitized?
I tend to agree with this, good catch.
What's the intended usecase anyway? Just a debug tool during development, or something that you expect heavy use of by some userspace middleware?
I suspect it is another attempt to make userspace clocks/plls work? Scary. Cheers, Moritz