Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v11 03/11] firmware: xilinx: Add zynqmp IOCTL API for device control | From | Sudeep Holla <> | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:43:27 +0100 |
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On 09/09/18 02:18, Olof Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jolly Shah <jolly.shah@xilinx.com> wrote: >> From: Rajan Vaja <rajanv@xilinx.com> >> >> Add ZynqMP firmware IOCTL API to control and configure >> devices like PLLs, SD, Gem, etc. >> >> Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <rajanv@xilinx.com> >> Signed-off-by: Jolly Shah <jollys@xilinx.com> > > 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? > > What's the intended usecase anyway? Just a debug tool during > development, or something that you expect heavy use of by some > userspace middleware? >
Thanks for pointing this out. My earlier attempts were ignored[1] and I gave up.
-- Regards, Sudeep
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/10/298
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