2016-07-24 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>: > On Mon 2016-08-08 16:08:12, Gustavo Padovan wrote: > > 2016-08-07 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>: > > > > > On Sun 2016-07-24 15:21:11, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 04:12:45PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Do you think there is time to get this in for 4.8? > > > > > > > > No, it was too late on my end, due to travel and vacation, sorry. I'll > > > > queue it up for 4.9-rc1. > > > > > > Could we get some documentation what this does? Is it visilble to > > > userspace? > > > > This interface is only intended for testing and validation, there are > > ioctls on the debugfs file that can be accessed by userspace but there > > isn't any exported kernel header with this info. The tester should know > > and add a internal header to be able to access it. We want to prevent > > people from misusing this feature by not advertising it nor providing > > documentation. > > You are playing dangerous game here. debugfs is not normally considered stable, > but otoh... ioctls on debugfs? > > Anyway, please provide some documentation. Kernel hackers need to know what this does. Okay, where do you think is the best place? Would documentation inside the .c file suffice for you? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
