On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> 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. Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Line6linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/line6linux-devel
