On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 17:33 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote: > Thanks for the patch Jarkko. Your solution is nice, but I think it could > implemented in a slightly better way. > > For starters, the subdrivers really shouldn't be poking around in the > generic driver's implementation details unless really necessary. Rather > we should export the generic chars_in_buffer so that other drivers may > implement similar functionality, should their protocols support it. > > Secondly, you're more or less copying the tiocmget implementation rather > then reusing the current implementation (with buffer allocation and > device-dependent status-format handling). > > Finally, there's a small optimisation that could be made from only > checking the hardware buffers when we now that the software buffers are > actually empty (rather than unconditionally submitting the control urb).
Hello Johan, I'm not a regular kernel hacker, but your modifications look good to me. Less code duplication is better. I was actually surprised that I couldn't call the generic chars_in_buffer function in the driver. Kind regards, Jarkko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
