Re: [PATCH 11/18] staging: gasket: always allow root open for write

From: Todd Poynor
Date: Mon Jul 16 2018 - 17:26:43 EST


On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>...
>> My own preference is to rewrite the apex driver entirely in-kernel and
>> pull in its userspace parts here. If I don't receive significant
>> pushback on that I'll start doing that real soon.
>
> Why would we object to that?

I've seen folks that have a preference for UIO whenever possible, but
I'm of the "just do kernel-like stuff in the kernel" camp. There are
folks cc'ed who may have strong opinions about the subject for various
reasons; absent any serious objections I'll put that on a longer-term
todo list. Thanks,

--
Todd