Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver patches for 3.19-rc1

Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-17T09:28:08Z

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:56:38AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Ok, that was a bit snotty on my part, I apologize.
>
> But really, this is self-contained, doesn't touch any core
> infrastructure, and is really just like any other driver for hardware
> that people don't use. It shouldn't affect anything elsewhere in the
> kernel, so objecting to it seems odd to me.

I does dig into internals in quite nasty ways. I driver that is always
modular and just uses existing exported APIs in proper ways and adds no
to little new userspaces ABIs is one things. A new IPCs mechanisms that
pokes into internals and exposes a huge ABI/API is a totally different
thing.