From: gregkh@linuxfoundation•org (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [tpmdd-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] tee: generic TEE subsystem
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:05:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150420160545.GA11296@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150420155648.GA7676@obsidianresearch.com>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:56:48AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 04:54:32PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:08:00PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > I still suspect the expected way to write a new mid layer is to create
> > > your own struct device and not rely on misc_device,
> >
> > Yes, that is the way. You can not use misc_device for anything other
> > than creating the char node that your driver can use through the fileops
> > you pass to it.
> >
> > Do not use a misc_device to create sysfs files for, or anything else, it
> > will be wrong and racy, as you have pointed out.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Can you quickly comment on when a misc device should be used compared to
> alloc_chrdev_region & cdev_add ?
If you need more than one character device node, don't use a misc
device. If you only need one, and nothing "special" or "fancy", and
don't want to put sysfs attribute files on your device, then use a misc
device.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-20 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-17 7:50 [RFC PATCH 0/2] generic TEE subsystem Jens Wiklander
2015-04-17 7:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] tee: " Jens Wiklander
2015-04-17 16:30 ` [tpmdd-devel] " Jason Gunthorpe
2015-04-18 9:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-18 17:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-04-18 21:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-20 5:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-04-20 14:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-20 15:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-04-20 16:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-04-20 13:02 ` Jens Wiklander
2015-04-20 17:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-04-21 5:59 ` Jens Wiklander
2015-04-17 20:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-18 7:20 ` Paul Bolle
2015-04-20 6:20 ` Jens Wiklander
2015-04-20 18:20 ` [tpmdd-devel] " Jason Gunthorpe
2015-04-21 10:45 ` Jens Wiklander
2015-04-18 8:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-18 8:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-18 9:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-18 18:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-18 19:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-18 20:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-18 20:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-19 7:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-17 7:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] tee: add OP-TEE driver Jens Wiklander
2015-04-18 8:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-18 9:36 ` Javier González
2015-04-18 18:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-18 19:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-19 11:17 ` Javier González
2015-04-19 19:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-20 7:05 ` Javier González
2015-04-20 6:42 ` Jens Wiklander
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