Re: [PATCH 2/2] usb: serial: xr_serial: Add gpiochip support

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon May 25 2020 - 09:35:38 EST


On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 03:02:15PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 1:12 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > I remember I even referred to this myself, but I've been waning a bit
> > > on it recently, because it turns out that userspace/users aren't very
> > > good at parsing sysfs for topology.
> >
> > Which is why they could use libudev :)
>
> Yet they insist on using things like Busybox' mdev (e.g. OpenWrt)
> or Android ... or is Android using libudev now? I'd be delighted
> if they did.

No, Android is not using libudev yet, they seem to be reinventing the
same thing, slowly, over time :(

greg k-h