RE: [PATCH v13 02/10] usbip: exporting devices: modifications to host side libraries

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Hello,

> In my humble opinion the code itself is good. The problem is commit
> message. Current commit massage has nothing to do with patch content
> and should be totally changed.
> 
> Please elaborate that this function is unused, write that using
> indexes on a list is generally not a good idea and so on.

OK.
I will improve the commit message.

Thank you,

n.iwata
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krzysztof Opasiak [mailto:k.opasiak@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2016 4:57 AM
> To: fx IWATA NOBUO; shuah.kh@xxxxxxxxxxx; valentina.manea.m@xxxxxxxxx;
> gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: fx MICHIMURA TADAO; Shuah Khan
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 02/10] usbip: exporting devices: modifications to
> host side libraries
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/24/2016 06:59 AM, fx IWATA NOBUO wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >> This doesn't look like a simple change to rename and reuse an unused
> >> function. This patch does lot more and is changing the user interface.
> >> Looks like instead of taking an integer value for device lookup, you
> >> are changing it to char *.
> >>
> >> Any reason why you have to change the user interface to go to char
> >> *busid?
> >>
> >> I would like to see a good explanation why this user interface change
> >> is necessary.
> >
> > I can't figure out why the second argument was int because it was
> > unused.
> >
> 
> I also cannot figure out this but using busid here looks much more reasonable
> to me.
> 
> > usbip_get_device() is a stub-side (usb-host) function.
> > As you know, only port number in vhci-side can be int.
> > Others are bus-id.
> > Furthermore, the unused code searches list node position. It doesn't
> > make sense.
> >
> 
> Agree.
> 
> > Here, this patch set needs to find bound device with bus-id in
> > stub-side.
> 
> stub-side or vudc side. In case of vudc the busid is set to usbip-vudc.%d
> 
> >
> > I may add explanation above to change log.
> > Or I can change new function name like usbip_find_device() and leave
> > the unused function once.
> >
> > Please, let me know how should I do.
> 
> In my humble opinion the code itself is good. The problem is commit message.
> Current commit massage has nothing to do with patch content and should be
> totally changed.
> 
> Please elaborate that this function is unused, write that using indexes
> on a list is generally not a good idea and so on.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Krzysztof Opasiak
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
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