linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1 02/14] bus1: provide stub cdev /dev/bus1

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:19:50 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:     David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
Cc:     Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 02/14] bus1: provide stub cdev /dev/bus1

On Oct 26, 2016 12:21 PM, "David Herrmann" <dh.herrmann@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
>
> Add the CONFIG_BUS1 option to enable the bus1 kernel messaging bus. If
> enabled, provide the bus1.ko module with a stub cdev /dev/bus1. So far
> it does not expose any API, but the full intended uapi is provided in
> include/uapi/linux/bus1.h already.
>

This may have been covered elsewhere, but could this use syscalls instead?