From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@intel.com>,
gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david@woodhou.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] char/mei: PCI device and char driver support.
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:57:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322215759.2d982e06@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103221822.43780.arnd@arndb.de>
> * In the PCI probe function, create a misc character device for
> every instance you find behind each device. Remove the global
> variables and constants.
The current code is complex and could be a ton simpler *but* don't
abuse misc devices when you have one per PCI instance please.
Alan (Miscdevice police)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-22 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-22 10:51 [PATCH 0/7] char/mei: Intel MEI Driver Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 1/7] char/mei: PCI device and char driver support Oren Weil
2011-03-22 17:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-22 21:57 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-03-22 22:22 ` Greg KH
2011-03-22 23:04 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-23 7:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/7] char/mei: Interrupt handling Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 3/7] char/mei: MEI "Link" layer code - MEI Hardware communications Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 4/7] char/mei: MEI driver init flow Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 5/7] char/mei: Hardware and MEI driver internal struct definition Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 6/7] char/mei: Header file contain the Userland API, (IOCTL and its struct) Oren Weil
2011-03-22 16:26 ` Greg KH
2011-03-22 16:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 7/7] char/mei: Updates to char/Kconfig ane char/Makefile Oren Weil
2011-03-23 21:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-03-22 16:23 ` [PATCH 0/7] char/mei: Intel MEI Driver Greg KH
2011-03-23 12:25 ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-23 13:50 ` Greg KH
2011-03-22 16:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 7:20 ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-23 13:51 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 15:55 ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-23 16:06 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 16:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 12:54 ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-24 13:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 15:54 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-05 6:01 ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-04-18 13:53 ` Pavel Machek
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