linux-kernel - Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] Uwb: Nxp: sr1xx: Uwb driver support for sr1xx series chip

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Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 08:37:41 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Manjunatha Venkatesh <manjunatha.venkatesh@....com>
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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] Uwb: Nxp: sr1xx: Uwb driver support for sr1xx
 series chip

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:24:14AM +0000, Manjunatha Venkatesh wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> Thanks for sharing your comments with us and apologies for our delayed
> response. 
> We have done a thorough review internally and would like to put forward a
> proposal for your consideration.
> 
> 1)  In our next submission we will define the kernel/user API clearly with
> kernel pre-defined IOCTL macros in the uapi header file and follow the
> standard IOCTL rules.

Why do you need ioctls at all?  Anyway, submit the code and we can
review the api then, I have no recollection of the previous submission
as it was thousands of patches ago.

> 2)  We agree that this is a simple driver which may not need a dedicated
> directory under Linux/drivers so we will move the driver to "misc" folder.
> 3)  We can also share some applications which show the usage of these driver
> API's from the user space.

That's great, submit away!

greg k-h