From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35419 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751743AbXISVdo (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:33:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:33:56 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "John W. Linville" , David Brownell , 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 Message-ID: <20070919213356.GB15510@suse.de> References: <20070919204428.GE5483@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070919204428.GE5483@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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