From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752099AbdJTPb1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:31:27 -0400 Received: from esa6.dell-outbound.iphmx.com ([68.232.149.229]:3743 "EHLO esa6.dell-outbound.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751857AbdJTPb0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:31:26 -0400 From: X-LoopCount0: from 10.166.132.172 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.43,405,1503378000"; d="scan'208";a="163444064" X-DLP: DLP_GlobalPCIDSS To: CC: , , , , , , , , , , Subject: RE: [PATCH v10 13/15] platform/x86: wmi: create userspace interface for drivers Thread-Topic: [PATCH v10 13/15] platform/x86: wmi: create userspace interface for drivers Thread-Index: AQHTSbRv3hAQO0pxxkGcQBA59dRjCqLs1awggABVaAD//7JGAA== Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:31:12 +0000 Message-ID: <67a7b88891674cb7ac94b46833b6b564@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> References: <175838453318108ae69be344c4d3a2b75c2edc69.1508434514.git.mario.limonciello@dell.com> <20171020132138.GA23973@kroah.com> <19e30ca305e449de86b702ae8900d306@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> <20171020144839.GA4550@lst.de> <20171020150850.GA4770@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20171020150850.GA4770@lst.de> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.143.18.86] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id v9KFVXSk016090 > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@lst.de] > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 10:09 AM > To: Limonciello, Mario > Cc: hch@lst.de; greg@kroah.com; dvhart@infradead.org; > andy.shevchenko@gmail.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; platform-driver- > x86@vger.kernel.org; luto@kernel.org; quasisec@google.com; > pali.rohar@gmail.com; rjw@rjwysocki.net; mjg59@google.com; > gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk > Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 13/15] platform/x86: wmi: create userspace interface for > drivers > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 03:07:27PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote: > > No drivers do this today, it's obviously not a good idea. > > I was just saying it's hypothetical. > > If there is no one using the exported methods don't export them. This particular one is used by patch 14/15 in this series.