Re: [RFC] How implement Secure Data Path ?

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 03:22:20PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:15:32PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Yes the idea would be a special-purpose allocater thing like ion. Might
> > even want that to be a syscall to do it properly.
> 
> Would you care to elaborate why a syscall would be more proper? Not that
> I'm objecting to it, just for my education.

It seems to be the theme with someone proposing a global /dev node for a
few system wide ioctls, then reviewers ask to make a proper ioctl out of
it. E.g. kdbus, but I have vague memory of this happening a lot.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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