From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
"Hunter, Adrian" <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Vinayak Holikatti <vinholikatti@gmail.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@android.com>,
Michael Ryleev <gmar@google.com>,
Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Yaniv Gardi <ygardi@codeaurora.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] char: rpmb: add RPMB simulation device
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:45:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160901204547.GA5960@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B542C5B98@hasmsx108.ger.corp.intel.com>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 08:25:28PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:27:50PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > This is a simple platform device used for testing the RPMB subsystem.
> > > +static struct platform_device *rpmb_sim_pdev;
> >
> > A platform device? Ick, no please don't abuse that interface for this type of
> > thing. Make it a real device if you have one, and put it in the proper place. If
> > it's a "virtual" device, great, use that. But don't make something up like this
> > please.
>
> This is a virtual device (simulation), nothing behind it just a chunk of memory.
> Is this there any information missing to make it clearer?
Don't make it a platform device, make it a "virtual" device, don't abuse
the platform device/driver interface for something that isn't really a
platform device.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 20:27 [PATCH v5 0/8] Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) subsystem Tomas Winkler
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] rpmb: add " Tomas Winkler
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] char: rpmb: add sysfs-class ABI documentation Tomas Winkler
2016-08-31 10:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] char: rpmb: add device attributes Tomas Winkler
2016-08-31 10:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-01 20:21 ` Winkler, Tomas
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] char: rpmb: provide a user space interface Tomas Winkler
2016-07-18 22:15 ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-07-20 9:02 ` Winkler, Tomas
2016-07-20 14:21 ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-08-05 20:08 ` Pavel Machek
2016-08-07 9:44 ` Winkler, Tomas
2016-08-31 10:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-01 20:05 ` Winkler, Tomas
2016-09-01 20:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-04 11:35 ` Winkler, Tomas
2016-09-04 20:20 ` Pavel Machek
2016-09-04 20:56 ` Winkler, Tomas
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] char: rpmb: add RPMB simulation device Tomas Winkler
2016-08-31 10:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-08-31 10:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-01 20:25 ` Winkler, Tomas
2016-09-01 20:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] tools rpmb: add RPBM access tool Tomas Winkler
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] mmc: block: register RPMB partition with the RPMB subsystem Tomas Winkler
2016-07-18 20:27 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] scsi: ufs: connect to " Tomas Winkler
2016-07-23 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) subsystem Winkler, Tomas
2016-08-05 20:06 ` Pavel Machek
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