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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>,
	line6linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laurent_navet@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/46] staging: line6: drop MIDI state sysfs attrs
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:58:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121122195840.GA26543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353613765-18690-1-git-send-email-stefanha@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Let's put the line6 staging driver on a diet for Thanksgiving! :)

Yeah!

> Markus and I have discussed the MIDI processing that currently happens in the
> line6 driver.  This stuff really belongs in userspace where a library or
> utility can use ALSA MIDI APIs to control the device.  Moving MIDI processing
> to userspace has several benefits:
> 
> 1. The driver only handles PCM and MIDI I/O.  This means less kernel code.
> 
> 2. A large number of sysfs attributes can be removed.  These attributes exposed
>    MIDI state and driver code was necessary to sync and manage this state.
> 
> 3. It's easier for userspace to control the device, try out new MIDI commands,
>    etc when the driver acts as a dumb transport.
> 
> This patch series removes the sysfs attributes and then removes the state
> behind those attributes.  I have tried to make small incremental changes that
> can be reviewed easily.

Very nice, I'll queue these up on Monday, very good work, thanks so much
for doing this.

>  drivers/staging/line6/Kconfig       |  11 -
>  drivers/staging/line6/Makefile      |   2 -
>  drivers/staging/line6/control.c     | 995 ------------------------------------
>  drivers/staging/line6/control.h     | 195 -------
>  drivers/staging/line6/driver.c      |  20 -
>  drivers/staging/line6/dumprequest.c | 135 -----
>  drivers/staging/line6/dumprequest.h |  76 ---
>  drivers/staging/line6/midi.c        | 120 -----
>  drivers/staging/line6/midi.h        |  10 -
>  drivers/staging/line6/pod.c         | 846 +-----------------------------
>  drivers/staging/line6/pod.h         | 105 +---
>  drivers/staging/line6/variax.c      | 480 +----------------
>  drivers/staging/line6/variax.h      |  60 ---
>  13 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3039 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/line6/control.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/line6/control.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/line6/dumprequest.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/line6/dumprequest.h

I like seeing diffstats like that :)

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-22 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22 19:48 [PATCH 00/46] staging: line6: drop MIDI state sysfs attrs Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 01/46] staging: line6: drop channel sysfs attr Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 02/46] staging: line6: drop clip " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 03/46] staging: line6: drop unused param_dirty bitmap Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 04/46] staging: line6: drop dirty sysfs attr Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 05/46] staging: line6: drop dump " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 06/46] staging: line6: drop dump_buf " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 07/46] staging: line6: drop monitor_level " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 08/46] staging: line6: change monitor_level type ValueWait -> int Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 09/46] staging: line6: drop name sysfs attr Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 10/46] staging: line6: drop name_buf " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 11/46] staging: line6: drop retrieve_amp_setup " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 12/46] staging: line6: drop retrieve_channel " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 13/46] staging: line6: drop retrieve_effects_setup " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 14/46] staging: line6: drop store_amp_setup " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 15/46] staging: line6: drop store_channel " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 16/46] staging: line6: drop store_effects_setup " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 17/46] staging: line6: drop routing " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 18/46] staging: line6: drop tuner_freq " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 19/46] staging: line6: drop tuner_note " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:48 ` [PATCH 20/46] staging: line6: drop tuner_mute " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 21/46] staging: line6: drop tuner_pitch " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 22/46] staging: line6: drop finish " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 23/46] staging: line6: drop midi_postprocess " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 24/46] staging: line6: drop midi_mask_receive Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 25/46] staging: line6: drop midi_mask_transmit Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 26/46] staging: line6: drop midi_postprocess flag Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 27/46] staging: line6: drop pod.c raw sysfs attr Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 28/46] staging: line6: drop tuner param filtering Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 29/46] staging: line6: drop variax model sysfs attr Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 30/46] staging: line6: drop variax volume " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 31/46] staging: line6: drop variax tone " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 32/46] staging: line6: drop variax name " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 33/46] staging: line6: drop variax bank " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 34/46] staging: line6: drop variax dump " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 35/46] staging: line6: drop variax active " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 36/46] staging: line6: drop variax guitar " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 37/46] staging: line6: drop variax raw sysfs attrs Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 38/46] staging: line6: drop CONFIG_LINE6_USB_RAW Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 39/46] staging: line6: drop amp/effects dump request triggers Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 40/46] staging: line6: drop MIDI parameter sysfs attrs Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 41/46] staging: line6: drop pod prog_data buffers Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 42/46] staging: line6: drop unused pod atomic_flags field Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 43/46] staging: line6: drop variax model_data field Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 44/46] staging: line6: drop dump requests from variax startup Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 45/46] staging: line6: drop dump requests from pod startup Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 46/46] staging: line6: drop unused dumprequest code Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 19:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-11-22 20:08   ` [PATCH 00/46] staging: line6: drop MIDI state sysfs attrs Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-24  0:13     ` Markus Grabner

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