linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver patches for 3.19-rc1

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Message-ID: <20141217092804.GA9424@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:28:04 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver patches for 3.19-rc1

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:56:38AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Ok, that was a bit snotty on my part, I apologize.
> 
> But really, this is self-contained, doesn't touch any core
> infrastructure, and is really just like any other driver for hardware
> that people don't use.  It shouldn't affect anything elsewhere in the
> kernel, so objecting to it seems odd to me.

I does dig into internals in quite nasty ways.  I driver that is always
modular and just uses existing exported APIs in proper ways and adds no
to little new userspaces ABIs is one things.  A new IPCs mechanisms that
pokes into internals and exposes a huge ABI/API is a totally different
thing.

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