Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] gpio: create the /sys/class/gpio mount point with GPIO_SYSFS disabled

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:49:57AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > Again, the issue is "do not remove apis that userspace relies on".
> > That's all.  I'm going to add another one called "do not mount any
> > filesystem at /sys/devices/class/ as that is insane" as well :)
> >
> 
> I know you're not being 100% serious but I think it's worth mentioning
> that the mounting is not done from the kernel. You can't really impose
> the second one on user-space.

Understood, but I can reject a patch that does "create a mount point for
userspace to use in /sys/class/", which is what I meant here.

thanks,

greg k-h