Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934096AbcJZXy2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:54:28 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-f68.google.com ([209.85.213.68]:33195 "EHLO mail-vk0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932987AbcJZXy0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:54:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [2a02:fe0:c130:1430:7e7a:91ff:fe0e:3e2c] In-Reply-To: References: <20161026191810.12275-1-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> <20161026191810.12275-3-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> From: Tom Gundersen Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 01:54:05 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC v1 02/14] bus1: provide stub cdev /dev/bus1 To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: David Herrmann , Hannes Reinecke , Jiri Kosina , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , Josh Triplett , Greg KH , Arnd Bergmann , Steven Rostedt , Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 415 Lines: 11 On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This may have been covered elsewhere, but could this use syscalls instead? Yes, syscalls would work essentially the same. For now, we are using a cdev as it makes it a lot more convenient to develop and test as an out-of-tree module, but that could be changed easily before the final submission, if that's what we want. Cheers, Tom