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Date:   Tue, 1 Dec 2020 11:29:01 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Hemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 0/4] userspace MHI client interface driver
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 19:26:02 -0800 Hemant Kumar wrote:
> This patch series adds support for UCI driver. UCI driver enables userspace
> clients to communicate to external MHI devices like modem and WLAN. UCI driver
> probe creates standard character device file nodes for userspace clients to
> perform open, read, write, poll and release file operations. These file
> operations call MHI core layer APIs to perform data transfer using MHI bus
> to communicate with MHI device. Patch is tested using arm64 based platform.

Wait, I thought this was for modems.

Why do WLAN devices need to communicate with user space?