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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
