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Message-ID: <20200703070221.GA2221524@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 3 Jul 2020 09:02:21 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ran Wang <ran.wang_1@....com>
Cc:     Peter Chen <peter.chen@....com>,
        "balbi@...nel.org" <balbi@...nel.org>, Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>,
        "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] USB: phy: fsl-usb: remove character device usage

On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:56:28AM +0000, Ran Wang wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thursday, July 2, 2020 5:08 PM, Peter Chen wrote
> > >
> > > No idea why this driver is using a char device node, statically
> > > allocated, with no dynamic allocation or hook up with devtmpfs, along
> > > with a reserverd major number, for "special" operations, not all of which ever
> > were implemented.
> > >
> > > So just rip it out, as no one must be using it because no modern
> > > system will ever actually create the /dev/ node it needs.
> > >
> > 
> > Add related people from NXP.
> > 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ran Wang <ran.wang_1@....com>

Thanks for the review!

greg k-h

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