Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: add real function open/read/write/ioctl/closefor moxa_serial_io driver

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 07:47:23PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 10:35 +0800, Jimmy Chen (éæé) wrote:
> > Add real function and GPL license.
> > Signed-off-by: Jimmy Chen <jimmy.chen@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> A few things.
> 
> o Your patches are reversed.
> o Please run your patches through checkpatch.
> o I think it better to avoid duplicating all of the GPL
>   and just reference it as you have via MODULE_LICENSE.
> o You could probably use MODULE_LICENSE("GPL V2")
>   if you want to limit it to V2 only.

And finally, why does this need to be a kernel driver at all?  Can't you
do all of this from userspace without any kernel changes needed?

thanks,

greg k-h
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