> On Aug 15, 2021, at 6:18 PM, David Holland wrote:
>>
>> This complaint is at best tangentially related to the topic at
>> hand, and can be adjusted separately from this discussion.
>
> Sure, but let's not forget to, ok? I was also not entirely pleased by
> seeing new untyped things going in
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 09:10:48AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > Why do we pass untyped strings around with this device_call mechanism?
> > Was there any discussion about this beforehand? Had I known it was
> > proposed I would have objected to an untyped string method calling
> > mechanism
> On Aug 15, 2021, at 9:56 AM, Taylor R Campbell
> wrote:
>
> Cool, thanks! Can you expand on what it would look like instead with
> the new API? Do you have any diffs to particulary compelling messy
> drivers or buses to show off how this makes things better?
Here’s a pretty solid
> On Aug 15, 2021, at 9:56 AM, Taylor R Campbell
> wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:10:48 -0700
>> From: Jason Thorpe
>>
>>> On Aug 15, 2021, at 2:08 AM, Taylor R Campbell
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is a little abstract to follow just from the types. Can you show
>>> examples of:
>>>
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:10:48 -0700
> From: Jason Thorpe
>
> > On Aug 15, 2021, at 2:08 AM, Taylor R Campbell
> > wrote:
> >
> > This is a little abstract to follow just from the types. Can you show
> > examples of:
> >
> > - code scattered around to reflect device tree properties?
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Michael wrote:
>
> Does this append a NUL if the property doesn't have one?
> IIRC OpenFirmware can be a bit inconsistent with that, I remember doing
> things like zeroing the buffer, then requesting buffer_size - 1 from
> OF_getprop() to make sure the result is
Hello,
On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 19:10:20 -0700
Jason Thorpe wrote:
> ==> int device_getprop_string(device_t dev, const char *prop, void *buf, int
> buflen);
> Fetch the specified property as a string info buf, copying at most
> buflen bytes, **including the terminating NUL**. If the backing
>
> On Aug 15, 2021, at 2:08 AM, Taylor R Campbell
> wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 19:10:20 -0700
>> From: Jason Thorpe
>>
>> Over the last year or so, I've been playing around with ideas for a
>> generic device properties API, and have been slowly adding some
>> infrastructure to the
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 19:10:20 -0700
> From: Jason Thorpe
>
> Over the last year or so, I've been playing around with ideas for a
> generic device properties API, and have been slowly adding some
> infrastructure to the kernel to enable it. Enough of the
> infrastructure is now in place (or
