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Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2022 17:04:11 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To:     Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
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        Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Subject: Re: fs: layered device driver to write to evdev
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 02:14:24PM +0100, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> I understand that device drivers should implement ->write_iter if they
> need to be written from kernel space, but evdev does not support this.
> What is the recommended way to have a layered device driver that can
> talk to evdev ?

Shouldn't just writing write_iter support make this work?

  Luis