Re: [PATCH] Airprime driver improvements to allow full speed EvDO transfers

Greg KH
2006-07-03T18:20:21Z

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:55:28PM -0400, Andy Gay wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Yes, this driver is already split into 2 different ones (look in the
> > recent -mm releases). Sierra wants to have their devices be in their
> > own driver, as the chip is a little different from the other ones. This
> > means that those devices are now controlled by a driver called "sierra"
> > and the other devices still are working with the airprime driver.
> >
> > This should hopefully fix the different endpoint issue, and allow new
> > devices to be supported properly, as Sierra Wireless is now maintaining
> > that driver.
> Aha, good news. So this patch is already obsolete, for the Sierra stuff
> anyway. And as I only have Sierra kit to work with, I reckon I should
> drop out of this now.

No, not at all. I'll gladly add your patch to the sierra driver, if you
say it works for your devices.

> I did make some changes to the last patch to do the cleanup stuff in the
> open function, do you want to see those?

Yes, please send the latest version, and I'll apply it.

thanks,

greg k-h