linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: modify bit

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Message-ID: <Y9lbi8TGLmVXudjG@combine-ThinkPad-S1-Yoga>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:18:51 +0100
From:   Guru Mehar Rachaputi <gurumeharrachaputi@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: modify bit_rate from u16 to u32

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 02:14:12PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Guru Mehar Rachaputi wrote:
> 
> > I would like to know, if it is mentioned in the TODO, why is it
> > so?
> > 
> 
> If it were as simple as just changing the type, they would have done
> that instead of adding it to the TODO.  :P
> 
> But in fairness the TODO entry is sort of vague and useless.  It should
> say that this configuration stuff needs to be moved to sysfs instead of
> being done through an IOCTL.  The we would need to port the userspace
> tools to use sysfs instead of the IOCTL.  Then we would delete the
> IOCTL.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220118135902.GH1951@kadam/
> 
> If you want to send a patch to update the TODO then you can do that.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
Thanks for your mail.

I have now updated TODO file and submitted as a patch.

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Thanks & Regards,
Guru