Re: staging: line6 driver status

[Markus Grabner]

On Thursday 27 October 2011 11:43:21 you wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:28:59AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >> What is the status of the line6 staging driver?  There is no TODO file
> >> so I'm not sure what is blocking it from leaving staging.
> > 
> > That's a good question.  I don't really know the status of the driver at
> > the moment, does anyone else?
> 
> I have one question about the design of the driver:
> 
> Do we really need the sysfs attributes which boil down to MIDI
> commands?  I think a userspace library provides a better interface
> because the MIDI commands/values vary between device models and bloat
> the driver.  Generic sound recording and MIDI software would talk to
> the driver.  Utilities to control the device could link against the
> userspace library.
> 
> By splitting the code into the kernel MIDI/pcm driver and a userspace
> control library which uses MIDI we can slim down the kernel driver and
> leave the large variation of MIDI commands/values to a library that
> the community can improve for specific device models.
> 
> This will make the driver smaller and easier for review.
I actually already started to work on this, but progress is slow since I'm 
quite busy with other things. As soon as there is a convenient way to access 
device parameters via user space code, I agree that the corresponding sysfs 
attributes should be removed from the driver.

	Kind regards,
		Markus


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