Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756571Ab2FFPHD (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:07:03 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:51199 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756554Ab2FFPHA (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:07:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:06:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Ming Lei cc: stefani@seibold.net, , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix usb skeleton driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1333 Lines: 34 On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Ming Lei wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:23 PM, wrote: > > From: Stefani Seibold > > > > This is a fix for the USB skeleton driver to bring it in shape. > > > > - The usb_interface structure pointer will be no longer stored > > - Every access to the USB will be handled trought the usb_interface pointer > > - Add a new bool 'connected' for signaling a disconnect (== false) > > - Handle a non blocking read without blocking > > - Code cleanup > > - Synchronize disconnect() handler with open() and release(), to fix races > > - Introduced fsync > > - Single user mode > > - More code cleanup :-) > > - Save some bytes in the dev structure > > So many purposes, you need to split your patches for review easily, :-) Not just that... usb-skeleton is intended to be a good example, to help people learn how to write USB drivers. It's already far too complicated for this purpose, and adding more complication will just make it worse. Instead of adding things to usb-skeleton, we should take things away. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/