Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:54:32 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [tpmdd-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] tee: generic TEE subsystem |
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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,
greg k-h
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