From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751357AbdJANXa (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2017 09:23:30 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56478 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751087AbdJANX2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2017 09:23:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 15:23:36 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com Cc: dvhart@infradead.org, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, luto@kernel.org, quasisec@google.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net, mjg59@google.com, hch@lst.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] platform/x86: wmi: create character devices when requested by drivers Message-ID: <20171001132336.GA26295@kroah.com> References: <17fcf9748e83ede2751a00d8248cb32cbdc610d6.1506571188.git.mario.limonciello@dell.com> <20170930015228.GC13307@fury> <20170930081205.GA22980@kroah.com> <81ddaac76f15420b800db365d694e156@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <81ddaac76f15420b800db365d694e156@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 07:26:57PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote: > I think what's Darren's most interested in is the that conceptually this is > an approach you can agree with. > > "A WMI vendor driver binds to the WMI bus and requests the WMI bus to create > a character device. The WMI bus creates a character device /dev/wmi/$driver > which the WMI vendor driver will process all various file operations." We've been over this before, let's see that actual implementation which defines the "will process all..." implementation to see if that is actually an acceptable thing. thanks, greg k-h