From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Abbott Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] staging: ion: create one device entry per heap Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 15:01:42 -0800 Message-ID: <65ef83b2-db3e-eaf6-129f-40e156400624@redhat.com> References: <1509983985-20950-1-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <1509983985-20950-3-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <20171128133217.GA29995@kroah.com> <20171202155317.GB5311@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171202155317.GB5311-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Greg KH , Benjamin Gaignard Cc: Sumit Semwal , =?UTF-8?B?QXJ2ZSBIasO4bm5ldsOl?= =?UTF-8?Q?g?= , Riley Andrews , Mark Brown , Dan Carpenter , driverdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org" , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On 12/02/2017 07:53 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> This is one of the item in the TODO list before been able to unstage ION >> which is my real need. > Why does it matter where in the tree this code is? Don't go adding new > things to it that are not needed. Who needs this? What userspace code > wants this type of multiple ion devices? > Requirements came in from several places to split /dev/ion -> /dev/ion0 and /dev/ion1 so that security policy (i.e. selinux) could be used to protect access to certain heaps. I wanted the ABI to be settled before trying to move out of staging, hence the line in the TODO list about doing the split. > thanks, > > greg k-h Thanks, Laura