linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] counter: Add character device interface

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <47ad15e7-05ce-d463-b6af-406365b3c3b4@lechnology.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:08:48 -0500
From:   David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Cc:     jic23@...nel.org, kamel.bouhara@...tlin.com, gwendal@...omium.org,
        alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, syednwaris@...il.com,
        patrick.havelange@...ensium.com, fabrice.gasnier@...com,
        mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com, alexandre.torgue@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] counter: Add character device interface

On 6/21/20 2:53 PM, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> Synapses simply indicate a change in a Count value

Ah, ok. I understand now that synapse is the wrong term for things like
the change in direction event or error events.

> For example, in the dual-axes positioning table scenario, a user
> application would likely want to know the exact X and Y position at the
> time of a given event -- that means an event should provide two Count
> values (and possibly associated device flags) when it occurs. I'm not
> sure yet how the struct counter_event should be defined in order to
> support this; we will need to indicate the format of data as well as
> provide the data itself. Perhaps, we can handle this by providing an
> unique id field so that only a single datum (e.g. a single count value)
> is provided via the value field, but subsequent struct counter_event
> items share the same id so that the user knows that a particular datum
> is part of a larger group of data for a specific event.

The timestamp could act as the "id" to correlate multiple values of a
single event.