From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian McMenamin Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:40:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] maple: fix device detection Message-Id: <1203925226.6364.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1203863423.6474.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1203889834.6474.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1203892373.6299.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080225053313.GA27064@renesas.com> In-Reply-To: <20080225053313.GA27064@renesas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mundt Cc: Greg KH , LKML , linux-sh 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