From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: 640E9920 <640e9920@gmail.com>,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] PM_QOS api update to use handles 1/5
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:18:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100106191831.GA3045@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100106191132.GD21316@linux.intel.com>
Hi!
> > Umm.. passing binary numbers like that... is not exactly good
> > interface. Think endianness issues when writing to it from high-level
> > language.
>
> yeah. At the moment I can't recall why I went binary for the ABI,
> we can revisit this, but its been in the wild for a few years now :(
>
> I guess I can do some tricks to see if its a hex string representation
> of a number and parse that as well as supporting the s32. i.e. accept
> strings "0x0000000" ... "0xFFFFFFFF" and return -EINVAL for anything
> else.
Maybe you could use length for detection? If they are writing 4 bytes,
it is s32, 10 bytes means ascii?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-06 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-30 1:09 [RFC] PM_QOS api update to use handles 1/5 640E9920
2010-01-04 8:31 ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-04 8:31 ` [linux-pm] " Pavel Machek
2010-01-06 19:11 ` mark gross
2010-01-06 19:18 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-01-07 20:55 ` mark gross
2010-01-07 20:55 ` [linux-pm] " mark gross
2010-01-07 20:58 ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-07 20:58 ` [linux-pm] " Pavel Machek
2010-01-06 19:18 ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-06 19:11 ` mark gross
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