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

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Message-ID: <CAG-2HqU1ungxSo+c-kYTKmBtqEbBbQ9L9a1W99mynr1VnoK0fA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2016 01:54:05 +0200
From:   Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
        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 Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> This may have been covered elsewhere, but could this use syscalls instead?

Yes, syscalls would work essentially the same. For now, we are using a
cdev as it makes it a lot more convenient to develop and test as an
out-of-tree module, but that could be changed easily before the final
submission, if that's what we want.

Cheers,

Tom