linux-kernel - Re: Read/write file from random(4) driver

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Message-ID: <20150418185600.GC30508@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:56:00 +0200
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, John Denker <jsd@...n.com>
Subject: Re: Read/write file from random(4) driver

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 01:02:19PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> (Assuming you can get the embedded developers to use the latest
> version of the userspace distributions / frameworks, granted, which is
> not at all guaranteed, but they are more likely to use newer userspace
> than they are the latest kernels, due to the device driver issue.)

What "device driver issue" is keeping anyone on such old and obsolete
kernel versions?  BSPs that never submitted their code upstream?  Or
something else that is broken and no one has told us about?

thanks,

greg k-h
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