Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] gpio: Add GPIO Aggregator

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Linus and Bartosz,

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:18 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> GPIO controllers are exported to userspace using /dev/gpiochip*
> character devices.  Access control to these devices is provided by
> standard UNIX file system permissions, on an all-or-nothing basis:
> either a GPIO controller is accessible for a user, or it is not.
> Currently no mechanism exists to control access to individual GPIOs.
>
> Hence this adds a GPIO driver to aggregate existing GPIOs, and expose
> them as a new gpiochip.  This is useful for implementing access control,
> and assigning a set of GPIOs to a specific user.  Furthermore, this
> simplifies and hardens exporting GPIOs to a virtual machine, as the VM
> can just grab the full GPIO controller, and no longer needs to care
> about which GPIOs to grab and which not, reducing the attack surface.

Do you have any more comments, before I respin and post v6?

Thanks, and have a niec weekend!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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