From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753932AbZBNWa3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:30:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752549AbZBNWaT (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:30:19 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:49638 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752304AbZBNWaR (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:30:17 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:27:41 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Adrian McMenamin Cc: Adrian McMenamin , Paul Mundt , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-input , linux-sh , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: maple: Update the maple bus driver to support block reads and writes Message-ID: <20090214222741.GA24365@kroah.com> References: <1234641948.6609.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090214215919.GA24052@kroah.com> <8b67d60902141409q39a79e67va422846f685f969d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8b67d60902141409q39a79e67va422846f685f969d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:09:27PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > 2009/2/14 Greg KH : > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 08:05:48PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > >> Greg, > >> > >> This patch updates the maple bus to support asynchronous block reads and > >> writes as well as generally improving the quality of the code and > >> supporting concurrency (all needed to support the Dreamcast visual > >> memory unit - a driver will also be posted for that). > >> > >> I have posted versions of this before but am here following the patch > >> grouping suggested and have also tested this code and unlike earlier > >> versions it shows no signs of suffering from race conditions - so I hope > >> you will be happy to queue it for inclusion. > > > > Looks good to me, but shouldn't this go through the sh maintainers > > instead? This is their area, right? > > > As it's a change to a bus I thought you were the maintainer? Nope, just the driver core. thanks, greg k-h