From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net, zambrano@broadcom.com,
mb@bu3sch.de
Subject: Re: Please pull 'ssb-drivers' branch of wireless-2.6
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:33:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919213356.GB15510@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070919204428.GE5483@tuxdriver.com>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:44:28PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Jeff, Greg, Gary, and Dave,
>
> These patches build upon the SSB bus support added to net-2.6.24 to
> support the b43 wireless driver. Since Dave has that support in his
> tree, I'm asking him to merge these patches as well.
>
> The first patch changes b44 from being a PCI (i.e. SSB-in-drag)
> device to being a native SSB device. This has little effect one
> way or the other for laptop/desktop/server machines. But, some
> embedded devices have b44 hardware but no PCI bus (i.e. just SSB).
> This patch enables the use of the b44 driver on that hardware.
>
> The second patch adds a driver for a USB OHCI device which lives on
> the SSB bus. Again, this is found on a number of SoC devices used
> especially in wireless routers and APs.
>
> Thanks for reviewing/ACKing/merging!
>
> John
>
> ---
>
> The patches are available here:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/ssb-drivers/0001-b44-port-to-native-ssb-support.patch
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/ssb-drivers/0002-usb-ssb-hosted-OHCI-driver.patch
This one needs to go through the linux-usb-devel list (not the -users
list) and get acked by David Brownell, the current OHCI maintainer.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 20:44 Please pull 'ssb-drivers' branch of wireless-2.6 John W. Linville
2007-09-19 21:25 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 21:27 ` John W. Linville
2007-09-19 21:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-09-20 13:19 ` John W. Linville
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