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From:   Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:26:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] staging: gasket: always allow root open for write
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@chromium.org>, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
        Zhongze Hu <frankhu@chromium.org>,
        John Joseph <jnjoseph@google.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>,
        Rob Springer <rspringer@google.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
        Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>...
>> My own preference is to rewrite the apex driver entirely in-kernel and
>> pull in its userspace parts here.  If I don't receive significant
>> pushback on that I'll start doing that real soon.
>
> Why would we object to that?

I've seen folks that have a preference for UIO whenever possible, but
I'm of the "just do kernel-like stuff in the kernel" camp.  There are
folks cc'ed who may have strong opinions about the subject for various
reasons; absent any serious objections I'll put that on a longer-term
todo list.  Thanks,

-- 
Todd