Re: [PATCH 11/18] staging: gasket: always allow root open for write

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 12:53:09PM +0300, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > I can't wait for people to just realize this whole "new" subsystem can
> > be replaced with UIO, but that's a topic for a different thread...
> 
> Yes, that is true and that is why I am not sure why we are going
> through all this staging exercise.
> 
> As far as I understand we'd still need to have quite a bit of kernel
> code so that we can safely program DMA controller (it does not look
> like uio_dmem_genirq.c is sufficient as is for gasket needs), but that
> should be solvable.

I agree, it should be solvable, and much smaller and simpler than this
whole large chunk of "subsystem+driver" code.  But I'm not the one
having to do this work, and it provides a bunch of easy cleanups for
people looking to get into kernel development, so I don't mind :)

But the "maintainers" should keep this in mind, as it is, this code is
_not_ acceptable for the main kernel tree because of the UIO framework
already present.

thanks,

greg k-h