[alsa-devel] [PATCH 11/39] ALSA: seq: optimize system_info function to new design

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Aug 8 09:50:08 CEST 2016


On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:04:55 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 11:48:47 +0200,
> Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> > 
> > In former commit, actual operations of each ioctl command get argument
> > in kernel space. Copying from/to user space is performed outside of
> > the function.
> > 
> > This commit optimizes to the new design.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>
> 
> While it's OK to split to small patches if you prefer, you don't have
> to do so.  Basically all the rest are doing the same thing (strip
> copy_*_user() and replace to the pointer accesses), and it's rather
> boring to read repeated mails.

BTW, I'm afraid that the patch series breaks bisection.
We need to consider rearranging the changes if we want to keep
bisectionability.


Takashi


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