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Message-ID: <CAO3upobdbObTVy_p4u5SnQEVZ_yt_P5_HgDt7DWFLbjkjgh3Eg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:26:39 -0700
From: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...il.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
Zhongze Hu <frankhu@...omium.org>,
John Joseph <jnjoseph@...gle.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Simon Que <sque@...omium.org>,
Rob Springer <rspringer@...gle.com>,
Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] staging: gasket: always allow root open for write
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>...
>> My own preference is to rewrite the apex driver entirely in-kernel and
>> pull in its userspace parts here. If I don't receive significant
>> pushback on that I'll start doing that real soon.
>
> Why would we object to that?
I've seen folks that have a preference for UIO whenever possible, but
I'm of the "just do kernel-like stuff in the kernel" camp. There are
folks cc'ed who may have strong opinions about the subject for various
reasons; absent any serious objections I'll put that on a longer-term
todo list. Thanks,
--
Todd
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