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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
