From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com>
Cc: Deepak Ukey <deepak.ukey@microchip.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
Linux SCSI Mailinglist <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Vasanthalakshmi.Tharmarajan@microchip.com,
Viswas G <Viswas.G@microchip.com>,
Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>,
yuuzheng@google.com, Vikram Auradkar <auradkar@google.com>,
vishakhavc@google.com, bjashnani@google.com,
Radha Ramachandran <radha@google.com>,
akshatzen@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 05/13] pm80xx : Support for char device.
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 19:24:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq17e1lk666.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMGffEnc1sWgOB7PENtbBQUzJ6iRORHrJe4Y5FV1+WkgrhAwOg@mail.gmail.com> (Jinpu Wang's message of "Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:15:12 +0100")
Jinpu,
> Thanks for the commit message, looks much better. In the past, people
> are against IOCTL, suggesting netlink, have you considered that?
Not so keen on adding more ioctls. It's 2020 and all...
Given the nature of the exported information, what's wrong with putting
it in sysfs?
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-21 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-17 7:19 [PATCH V2 00/13] pm80xx : Updates for the driver version 0.1.39 Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 01/13] pm80xx : Increase request sg length Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 14:08 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-17 15:50 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-01-17 15:53 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-20 4:20 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-01-20 8:47 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-29 9:02 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 02/13] pm80xx : Deal with kexec reboots Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 03/13] pm80xx : Free the tag when mpi_set_phy_profile_resp is received Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 04/13] pm80xx : Cleanup initialization loading fail path Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 05/13] pm80xx : Support for char device Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 14:15 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-21 0:24 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2020-01-21 5:33 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-01-21 12:39 ` John Garry
2020-01-22 8:50 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-01-22 12:38 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 9:43 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-03-11 17:08 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-03-11 22:13 ` Douglas Gilbert
2020-03-12 8:49 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-03-12 10:58 ` John Garry
2020-03-16 6:22 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 06/13] pm80xx : sysfs attribute for number of phys Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 14:21 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-20 4:50 ` Deepak.Ukey
2020-01-21 7:55 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 07/13] pm80xx : IOCTL functionality to get phy status Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 14:35 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 08/13] pm80xx : IOCTL functionality to get phy error Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 09/13] pm80xx : IOCTL functionality for GPIO Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 10/13] pm80xx : IOCTL functionality for SGPIO Deepak Ukey
2020-01-22 8:59 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 11/13] pm80xx : sysfs attribute for non fatal dump Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 14:26 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 12/13] pm80xx : Introduce read and write length for IOCTL payload structure Deepak Ukey
2020-01-17 7:19 ` [PATCH V2 13/13] pm80xx : IOCTL functionality for TWI device Deepak Ukey
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