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: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:13:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339056804.4964.8.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1206061621110.1183-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 16:22 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Stefani Seibold wrote:
>
> > The reason to fix the skeleton driver was about the complains for my
> > NRPZ driver, which was based on the design of the usb skeleton driver.
> >
> > > Going even farther, I'm not so sure it's a good idea for usb-skeleton
> > > to try supporting both synchronous and asynchronous accesses. This
> > > adds a layer of complexity that people just don't need. IMO it would
> > > be better to have two separate example drivers, an easy one that is
> > > purely synchronous and a more advanced one that is purely async.
> > >
> >
> > Agree, i think this would be a good idea to have to separate drivers.
> > Both should be also working drivers, for really simple hardware.
> >
> > The best way for me to do this is to shrink later this to a simplified
> > driver.
>
> That makes sense. Will you do it?
Yes, if nobody other will do this.
>
> > I think it is important to have a clean and working example. It would
> > save a lot of time for everybody and shrinks the number of round trips.
>
> How can you tell that it works? By testing your NRPZ driver?
>
That is an option. But i will look for a more generic hardware. Maybe a
smartphone or a usb pen drive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-07 8:13 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
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 [this message]
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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