linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] tty/serial: ttvys: add null modem driver emulating serial port

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:42:40 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     rishi gupta <gupt21@...il.com>
Cc:     robh+dt@...nel.org, jslaby@...e.com, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] tty/serial: ttvys: add null modem driver
 emulating serial port

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 01:08:25PM +0530, rishi gupta wrote:
> One problem (: about configfs. Desktop distros like Ubuntu doesn't
> enable configFS by default in kernel config. So users will have to
> build their own version of kernel. For my own purpose, as developer I
> have control over this but for others building kernel suggested ?

I suggest taking that up with Ubuntu :)

Nothing we can do from the kernel side if we provide a good api that
they just don't happen to want their users to use.  Odds are no one
noticed that it was needed for something...

thanks,

greg k-h