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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 02/14] bus1: provide stub cdev /dev/bus1
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On Oct 26, 2016 12:21 PM, "David Herrmann" <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
>
> Add the CONFIG_BUS1 option to enable the bus1 kernel messaging bus. If
> enabled, provide the bus1.ko module with a stub cdev /dev/bus1. So far
> it does not expose any API, but the full intended uapi is provided in
> include/uapi/linux/bus1.h already.
>

This may have been covered elsewhere, but could this use syscalls instead?