Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] soc: qcom: Remote FS memory driver

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Aug 11 2017 - 06:01:07 EST


On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 09:23:27AM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> Up until this patch the user space tool that implements the message
> handler just mapped the reserved memory region though /dev/mem, but this
> requires /dev/mem access and for the later platforms we need to make a
> call into TrustZone to provide the remote permission to access this
> memory region. So we need some code in the kernel to represent this.
>
> > Else: NAK as the scheme looks completely brain dead and bonkers.
>
> I can rework the commit message in an attempt to better explain the
> setup and hope you/people find it slightly less bonkers.
>
> Does this sound reasonable?

Please rework the commit message. And it should probably grow a saner
module name, too.