Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:28:04 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver patches for 3.19-rc1 |
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:56:38AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, that was a bit snotty on my part, I apologize. > > But really, this is self-contained, doesn't touch any core > infrastructure, and is really just like any other driver for hardware > that people don't use. It shouldn't affect anything elsewhere in the > kernel, so objecting to it seems odd to me.
I does dig into internals in quite nasty ways. I driver that is always modular and just uses existing exported APIs in proper ways and adds no to little new userspaces ABIs is one things. A new IPCs mechanisms that pokes into internals and exposes a huge ABI/API is a totally different thing.
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