From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751783AbaLQJ2I (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:28:08 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:51488 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751033AbaLQJ2G (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:28:06 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:28:04 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg KH Cc: Richard Weinberger , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver patches for 3.19-rc1 Message-ID: <20141217092804.GA9424@infradead.org> References: <20141215175535.GA4665@kroah.com> <20141215183915.GA15554@infradead.org> <20141215184103.GA6761@kroah.com> <20141215185638.GA8036@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141215185638.GA8036@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:56:38AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, that was a bit snotty on my part, I apologize. > > But really, this is self-contained, doesn't touch any core > infrastructure, and is really just like any other driver for hardware > that people don't use. It shouldn't affect anything elsewhere in the > kernel, so objecting to it seems odd to me. I does dig into internals in quite nasty ways. I driver that is always modular and just uses existing exported APIs in proper ways and adds no to little new userspaces ABIs is one things. A new IPCs mechanisms that pokes into internals and exposes a huge ABI/API is a totally different thing.