Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-10-12 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Did you ever get back to updating this patchset? No, unfortunately. I got mostly talked out of writing the driver that I wanted to write that uses it, and I've been swamped with other stuff. --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Man

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-10-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Did you ever get back to updating this patchset? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-04-23 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). > It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place > and for weather the fully_dynamic mechanism is a good idea. > > The current character device

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-04-23 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:44:05PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). > It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place > and for weather the fully_dynamic mechanism is a good idea. Sorry for the long delay. I

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-03-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> Thoughts? I want to use this for the u2f driver, which will either be > a chardev driver in its own right or use a simple new iso7816 class. > > Ideally we could convert a bunch of drivers to use this, at least > where there are no legacy minor number considerations. I'd really like to see a f

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-03-26 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 05:16:28PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Quick ping: does anyone want to review this? Yes, sorry, I'm still way behind on my patch queue review, want to get to this this week. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-03-26 Thread Hillf Danton
Quick ping: does anyone want to review this? --Andy On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). > It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place > and for weather the fully_dynamic mechanism

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-03-25 Thread Andy Lutomirski
Quick ping: does anyone want to review this? --Andy On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). > It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place > and for weather the fully_dynamic mechanism

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-02-11 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:44:05PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). >> It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place >> and for weather the full

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-02-11 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). > It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place > and for weather the fully_dynamic mechanism is a good idea. [ ... snip ... ] > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski

Re: [RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-02-10 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:44:05PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). > It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place > and for weather the fully_dynamic mechanism is a good idea. > > The current character de

[RFC] simple_char: New infrastructure to simplify chardev management

2015-02-10 Thread Andy Lutomirski
This isn't adequately tested, and I don't have a demonstration (yet). It's here for review for whether it's a good idea in the first place and for weather the fully_dynamic mechanism is a good idea. The current character device interfaces are IMO awful. There's a reservation mechanism (alloc_chrd