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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Oh, that's bad :-)
> 
> That should really be it's own character device.  We don't really have a 
> way to connect two character devices like that.  Maybe muxing?
It will be a character device, once the device tree is initialized. 
Better ideas are welcome, just keep in mind basic things like kmalloc 
don't work yet.