Re: [PATCH] maple: fix device detection

[Adrian McMenamin <adrian@newgolddream.dyndns.info>]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:33 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:32:53PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 21:50 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 14:30 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > > The maple bus driver that went into the kernel mainline in
> > > > September 2007 contained some bugs which were revealed by the
> > > > update of the kobj code for the current release series.
> > > > Unfortunately those bugs also helped ensure maple devices were
> > > > properly detected. This patch (against the current git) now ensures
> > > > that devices are properly detected again.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Further testing has shown this has introduced another bug, this time
> > > limiting the effectiveness of subdevice detection. Please ignore this
> > > while I work on a fix.
> > > 
> > Sorry for the confusion, in fact there is nothing wrong with this code
> > (ie it should be applied), the error was in the driver for the Dreamcast
> > controller (the device, in general, into which the subdevices are
> > plugged in and out).
> > 
> > I will post a fix for that.
> > 
> > Sorry again.
> > 
> So what exactly is supposed to be applied here?

The patch at the start of this thread - ie
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/125  - this should really go in now as it
fixes a problem with current code.

In addition there are two patch sets to add new device support:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/211    - maple controller

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/121  (thread) - maple mouse