On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 04:02:33PM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote: > On 18.10.2017 14:12, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:46:09AM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote: > > > The following patch adapts the driver to use the device model by: > > > > > > - adopting the MOST bus_type > > > - registering the core as a busdriver > > > - removing private kobject/kset usage > > > - removing private lists and structures to track registered modules > > > and making use of the device model API > > > - removing prefix of modules > > > - allowing adapter drivers (a.k.a. HDM) to register MOST devices > > > - registering AIM modules as components with the core to build > > > the user space experience of the driver stack > > > - using attribute groups to create the sysfs files > > > - renaming variables to prevent collision with the introduced device > > > structs. > > > > Hint, when you have to enumerate a list of different things you do in a > > single patch, that is a _huge_ sign that the patch needs to be broken up > > into smaller pieces, each piece only doing one logical thing. > > > > This is a huge reconstruction of the driver architecture that > requires more than one thing be done at a time. Breaking this > up into tiny patches might render the sources broken, if you > don't apply the complete series. (Which is also a no-go, right?) > > Since staging is meant to be the place to fix things up, > I thought I'd get away with this. Anyways, I'll try... Try to make it into something that you would want to be able to review :) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
