Re: [PATCH V2 05/13] pm80xx : Support for char device.

Jinpu Wang
2020-01-17T14:15:25Z

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:10 AM Deepak Ukey <deepak.ukey@microchip.com> wrote:
>
> From: Deepak Ukey <Deepak.Ukey@microchip.com>
>
> Added the support to register the char device for pm80xx module so that
> management utility fetch the different information from driver with the
> help of IOCTL. Also added the IOCTL functionality to get driver info so
> that management utility can fetch the information about driver like
> driver name, driver major number, driver minor number and build number.
>
> Signed-off-by: Deepak Ukey <deepak.ukey@microchip.com>
> Signed-off-by: Viswas G <Viswas.G@microchip.com>
> Signed-off-by: Radha Ramachandran <radha@google.com>

Thanks for the commit message, looks much better. In the past, people
are against IOCTL, suggesting netlink,
have you considered that?

Martin, James, what do you think?

Regards,
Jack