Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: mei: clean the TODO file from done tasks.

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:48:52PM +0300, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:43 PM
> > To: Winkler, Tomas
> > Cc: Weil, Oren jer; gregkh@suse.de; devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; linux-
> > kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: mei: clean the TODO file from done tasks.
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:38:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > I personally don't working with distros, but I believe that SUSE has
> > > > major deployment of iAMT (MEI).  Oren may have more info about it.
> > >
> > > Ah, this one:
> > >
> > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=intel-
> > iamt&project=ope
> > > nSUSE%3A11.4 If so, that package has been dropped by SUSE as it seems
> > > to no longer be maintained upstream.  Is this incorrect?
> > >
> > > Care to point to the proper download location for the lms tarball?
> > 
> > No, sorry, I think that tools uses the old, obsolete, heci kernel driver, and not
> > this "mei" driver, right?
> > 
> > Do you have a pointer to any tools that use this interface for this driver?
> 
> Please start here
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/06/01/new-updated-intelr-amt-linux-drivers/

That's a pointer to the same driver that is already in the kernel tree,
right?  What am I missing here?

> There are no direct download links I can provide. I think this was
> packaged by SUSE and not by openSUSE, but we really need wait for Oren
> to answer that.

I searched the internal SUSE package database and didn't find anything
other than the above mentioned intel-iamt tool, which does not seem to
work with the mei driver (which makes sense as the mei driver is not in
any SUSE product that I can tell.)

greg k-h