From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Prodyut Hazarika" <phazarika@amcc.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Question on 4xx GIT tree
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:31:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080910203100.6c0bf2d5@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0CA0A16855646F4FA96D25A158E299D605014C18@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:47:48 -0700
"Prodyut Hazarika" <phazarika@amcc.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> I have few questions.
>
> > > Should I base my patch from your master branch or your 'next' branch?
> > The 'next' branch would be best.
>
> I saw that both your master and next branches have removed the 4xx dma and USB drivers.
> The dma drivers for 4xx used to under: drivers/dma/ppc440spe-adma.c
> The usb driver for 4xx used to be under: drivers/usb/gadget/dwc_otg/*
> The whole dwc_otg directory got removed.
Those drivers were never in any version of the upstream kernel
according to git.
[jwboyer@yoda linux-2.6]$ git checkout master
Switched to branch "master"
[jwboyer@yoda linux-2.6]$ git log -- drivers/dma/ppc440spe-adma.c
[jwboyer@yoda linux-2.6]$ git log -- drivers/usb/gadget/dwc_otg
[jwboyer@yoda linux-2.6]$
> Do you know the reason why these drivers were removed? Also, are there plans to get these drivers back?
> Please let me know.
Perhaps they are in the DENX kernel? If so, someone would need to
submit them for inclusion.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-08 20:55 Question on 4xx GIT tree Prodyut Hazarika
2008-09-08 21:35 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-08 21:42 ` Prodyut Hazarika
2008-09-08 23:38 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-10 23:47 ` Prodyut Hazarika
2008-09-11 0:31 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-09-11 0:34 ` Prodyut Hazarika
2008-09-11 4:48 ` Stefan Roese
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