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From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	oneukum@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix usb skeleton driver
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:53:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339005186.11678.3.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1206061252000.1788-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 12:55 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> 
> > From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
> > 
> > This is a fix for the USB skeleton driver to bring it in shape.
> > 
> > - The usb_interface structure pointer will be no longer stored 
> > - Every access to the USB will be handled trought the usb_interface pointer
> 

Sorry, missed to fix. Should be:

Every access to the USB will be handled through the usb_device pointer

> Those two changes sound contradictory.
> 
> > - Add a new bool 'connected' for signaling a disconnect (== false)
> > - Handle a non blocking read without blocking
> > - Code cleanup
> > - Synchronize disconnect() handler with open() and release(), to fix races
> > - Introduced fsync
> > - Single user mode
> > - Eliminated dead code
> > - Save some bytes in the dev structure
> 
> How about simplifying the code so that it can be read by somebody who's 
> not already an expert?
> 
> Alan Stern
> 

Hey, i thought i get a little thank you for the voluntary work, what a
nice job. Not a demand for more work to do.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-06 16:27 [PATCH] fix usb skeleton driver stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 01/11] fix wrong label in skel_open stefani
2012-06-06 18:52   ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06 19:59     ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 02/11] code cleanup stefani
2012-06-06 18:57   ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 03/11] remove dead code stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 04/11] remove usb_interface pointer stefani
2012-06-06 18:59   ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06 20:04     ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-06 20:19       ` Alan Stern
2012-06-06 22:54   ` Greg KH
2012-06-07  8:07     ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-07 11:51     ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-07 14:28       ` Alan Stern
2012-06-07 15:03         ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-07 15:27           ` Alan Stern
2012-06-07 19:50             ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-07 20:42               ` Alan Stern
2012-06-08  7:18               ` RFC: remove usb_device pointer from usb_skeleton.c Stefani Seibold
2012-06-08  8:28                 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-08 13:46                 ` Alan Stern
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 05/11] remove unneeded forward declaration stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 06/11] introduce fsync function stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 07/11] remove pr_err() noise in skel_open stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 08/11] Handle a non blocking read without blocking stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 09/11] Synchronize disconnect() handler with open() and release(), to fix races stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 10/11] Introduce single user mode stefani
2012-06-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 11/11] Bump version number and add aditional author stefani
2012-06-06 16:55 ` [PATCH] fix usb skeleton driver Alan Stern
2012-06-06 17:53   ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
2012-06-06 18:16     ` Alan Stern
2012-06-06 20:19       ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-06 20:22         ` Alan Stern
2012-06-07  8:13           ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-07  7:10         ` Bjørn Mork
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-07  8:20 stefani
2012-06-06 13:23 stefani
2012-06-06 13:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06 14:28 ` Ming Lei
2012-06-06 15:05   ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-07  1:05     ` Ming Lei
2012-06-06 15:06   ` Alan Stern
2012-06-06 18:37     ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06  7:00 stefani
2012-06-06  7:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06  7:46   ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-06  7:44     ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06  7:32 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-06 12:18   ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-06  8:11 ` Greg KH

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