linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spmi: regmap: enable userspace writes

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Message-ID: <128966d05cff74d2da786abfb0404071@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:37:57 +0530
From:   kgunda@...eaurora.org
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sboyd@...eaurora.org,
        aghayal@....qualcomm.com, adharmap@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spmi: regmap: enable userspace writes

On 2016-09-29 23:30, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 05:06:26PM +0530, Kiran Gunda wrote:
> 
>> -#undef REGMAP_ALLOW_WRITE_DEBUGFS
>> +#define REGMAP_ALLOW_WRITE_DEBUGFS
> 
> This is completely inappropriate for upstream, if you need to do
> debugging on your platform you can enable this locally but enabling
> random writes from userspace to any regmap device is really not a good
> idea for system stablity or robustness.

Sure. I will remove this change and send the next version only to update
the spmi device name.