From: Sean MacLennan <seanm@seanm.ca>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
gregkh@suse.de, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, awong1@novell.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The rtl8192e procfs-based debug interface seems very broken
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:46:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130408184615.38b20264@lappy.seanm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51634550.3090300@lwfinger.net>
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:31:44 -0500
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> David,
>
> That whole driver is quite broken.
>
> My initial response would be to delete the whole procfs structure. I
> have one of those devices, but I never use it. At the moment, I do
> not have time to add locking and test the changes.
The driver isn't optimal, but I use it daily in one laptop. So it does
work, it just has a few quirks :D
Is the procfs structure only used for debugging? Unless it is used by
user mode tools, I have never used it. I may try quickly commenting it
out and see if things still work.
Cheers,
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-08 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-08 10:02 The rtl8192e procfs-based debug interface seems very broken David Howells
2013-04-08 22:31 ` Larry Finger
2013-04-08 22:46 ` Sean MacLennan [this message]
2013-04-08 22:59 ` Larry Finger
2013-04-09 1:18 ` Sean MacLennan
2013-04-09 1:28 ` Al Viro
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