From: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
"line6linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<line6linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Laurent Navet <laurent_navet@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/46] staging: line6: drop MIDI state sysfs attrs
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:13:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6166224.2emsEYaK8t@medialab> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QUai4O12U7fbrARAZLOig5=10e1WYg7i+OZTDETuDRWoQ@mail.gmail.com>
Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, 21:08:55 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Thanks! I hope Markus has a chance to review and/or test these
> changes first - he knows generally what I'm up too but should have the
> final word on details.
I just applied all patches and did a quick check with the PODxt Live. The
following features are still working:
*) the user space code which receives and interprets (at least some) MIDI
messages from the device
*) ALSA playback
*) ALSA volume and monitor controls
I will have a look at the Variax and TonePort later.
Kind regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 0:14 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 ` [PATCH 00/46] staging: line6: drop MIDI state sysfs attrs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-11-22 20:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-24 0:13 ` Markus Grabner [this message]
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