From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] gpio: create the /sys/class/gpio mount point with GPIO_SYSFS disabled
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:12:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024101603-crested-crowd-da88@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMRc=MeLkwRhgdtmmjxiJFvHZNCS55FR=hY3Qc0Gsb_nA725SQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:49:57AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > Again, the issue is "do not remove apis that userspace relies on".
> > That's all. I'm going to add another one called "do not mount any
> > filesystem at /sys/devices/class/ as that is insane" as well :)
> >
>
> I know you're not being 100% serious but I think it's worth mentioning
> that the mounting is not done from the kernel. You can't really impose
> the second one on user-space.
Understood, but I can reject a patch that does "create a mount point for
userspace to use in /sys/class/", which is what I meant here.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-16 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-15 8:00 [PATCH v2 0/2] gpio: create the /sys/class/gpio mount point with GPIO_SYSFS disabled Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-10-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] driver core: class: expose the class kobject Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-10-15 9:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] gpio: create the /sys/class/gpio mount point with GPIO_SYSFS disabled Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-10-15 9:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-15 9:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-15 12:11 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-10-15 12:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-15 17:52 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-10-16 7:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-16 8:49 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-10-16 9:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2024-11-12 10:04 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
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