Re: pvusb drivers for pvops 2.6.32.x kernel

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:59:30AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0800, Nathanael Rensen wrote:
> > Hi Pasi,
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> (I added Konrad and xen-devel to CC list, hopefully that's ok..)
> 
> > It's been a very long time since we discussed PVUSB - I haven't given
> > up, just been caught up with other things.
> > 
> 
> Great! Really nice to hear from you again..
> 
> Just last weekend I fetched the opensuse Linux 3.2 kernel-xen src.rpm,
> extracted the xen patches, and started preparing to re-port the driver to pvops.
> So now I don't have to finish that :)
> 
> > I've updated the PVUSB patch, done some refactoring and cleaned up the
> > checkpatch warnings.
> > The patch is targetted at linux-next, but it also applies cleanly to
> > Konrad's linux-next branch:
> > 
> > http://members.iinet.net.au/~nathanael/0001-pvusb-driver.linux-next.patch

Nice job (I took a brief look at it). I see you handled those m2p_override
nicely.
> > 
> > I haven't done a lot of testing, but it does work for my basic test
> > (USB TV-tuner). My next step is to get in contact with the USB
> > maintainer and see what further changes are required in order to get
> > this work upstreamed. In the meantime, the more testing and exposure
> > the patch gets the better.

OK. Well let me stick on my #testing branch which is a kitchensink of things
and play with a bit.

> > 
> 
> I'm sure we can get people testing this patch. Many people have been asking
> for USB passthru solution for Linux 3.x.
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> > Nathanael
> > 
> > On 23 March 2011 22:42, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:28:19PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I also noticed the frontend driver was producing a warning when
> > >> > loading which is resolved by setting the module owner.
> > >> >
> > >> > I've placed an updated diff here:
> > >> > http://members.iinet.net.au/~nathanael/pvusb.diff
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Great, thanks.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Hello again,
> > >
> > > Nathanael: Did you have time to take a look at upstreaming xen pvusb drivers ?
> > >
> > > -- Pasi
> > >