libi2c: Claiming driver slot failed

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
> Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>
>> On 2013-08-12 05:10, Chris Johns wrote:
>>>
>>> Nick Withers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me like there's an inversion of the App -> BSP -> RTEMS
>>>> abstraction going on here, where the app effectively needs to know
>>>> "black-box" details of the BSP, making maintenence and portability more
>>>> difficult and error prone than needs be...?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to see the drivers and the device table become unlimited
>>> just like
>>> the other unlimited resources in the kernel. The value becomes an
>>> allocation unit.
>>
>>
>> We should not start adding new tables, instead we should get rid of
>> them. Propagating this major/minor number concept down to the lowest
>> implementation levels is a major design problem from my point of view.
>> For drivers I would use IMFS generic nodes (e.g. a RTEMS device file
>> system).
>>
>>
>> http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/doxygen/cpukit/html/group__IMFSGenericNodes.html
>>
>>
>> It is possible to strip down IMFS to get a directory + generic nodes
>> subset with very low overhead. It is also possible to use static only
>> memory (no malloc()) for this.
>>
>
> This is a much better idea. You have my support for this.
>
+1 would this be like Linux's sysfs?

> Chris
>
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