linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] char: rpmb: add RPMB simulation device

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Message-ID: <20160901204547.GA5960@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:45:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        "Hunter, Adrian" <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Vinayak Holikatti <vinholikatti@...il.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@...roid.com>,
        Michael Ryleev <gmar@...gle.com>,
        Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Yaniv Gardi <ygardi@...eaurora.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] char: rpmb: add RPMB simulation device

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 08:25:28PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:27:50PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > This is a simple platform device used for testing the RPMB subsystem.
> > > +static struct platform_device *rpmb_sim_pdev;
> > 
> > A platform device?  Ick, no please don't abuse that interface for this type of
> > thing.  Make it a real device if you have one, and put it in the proper place.  If
> > it's a "virtual" device, great, use that.  But don't make something up like this
> > please.
> 
> This is a virtual device (simulation), nothing behind it just a chunk of memory.
> Is this there any information missing to make it clearer? 

Don't make it a platform device, make it a "virtual" device, don't abuse
the platform device/driver interface for something that isn't really a
platform device.

thanks,

greg k-h