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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] drivers/staging: Gasket driver framework + Apex
 driver
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Date:   Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:14:41 -0700
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On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 19:24 -0400, Simon Que wrote:
> The Gasket (Google ASIC Software, Kernel Extensions, and Tools) kernel
> framework is a generic, flexible system that supports thin kernel
> drivers. Gasket kernel drivers are expected to handle opening and
> closing devices, mmap'ing BAR space as requested, a small selection of
> ioctls, and handling page table translation (covered below). Any other
> functions should be handled by userspace code.

Perhps this should be resubmited with changes appropriate for
the staging-next tree as this does not compile there.