From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
To: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Juan David Gonzalez Cobas <david.cobas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [-next] staging/vme: various fixes + new driver model for VME
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:08:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC162BA.6080009@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287729412-24356-1-git-send-email-cota@braap.org>
On 22/10/10 07:36, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> This contains first a whole bunch of fixes to the existing vme
> code in staging, to then introduce a new driver model for VME
> in patch 27.
>
Emilio,
The VME drivers are currently in the staging tree - please can you post
these patches to the mailing list identified in the maintainers file
(devel@driverdev.osuosl.org) so that these modifications can be
discussed there.
MArtyn
> I have a short list of things to do after this patchset gets
> reviewed:
>
> - provide a saner API for VME drivers that just want to
> map/unmap chunks of memory (knowing nothing about underlying
> hardware features, such as windows). This is already
> implemented in the out-of-tree driver in [1].
>
> - Make DMA work on the tsi148 (it's the only bridge I've got).
> This will probably involve changing or extending the
> current API.
>
> - Test the whole thing with real hardware and a real VME driver
> (currently out of tree as well, see [2]), which I'll try
> to get merged, too--currently we just have vme_user.c which
> really isn't a kosher driver.
>
>
>
> Note that the appended applies on top of linux-next.
>
> The patchset can be pulled from:
> git://github.com/cota/linux-2.6.git vme-next
>
> Thanks,
>
> Emilio
>
>
> [1] http://repo.or.cz/w/ht-drivers.git/tree/HEAD:/vmebridge/driver
> [2] http://repo.or.cz/w/ht-drivers.git/tree/HEAD:/sis33/drivers
>
> diffstat:
>
> drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.c | 222 ++++++------
> drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.h | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.c | 259 +++++++-------
> drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.h | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 159 ++++-----
> drivers/staging/vme/vme.c | 569 +++++++++++++++-------------
> drivers/staging/vme/vme.h | 229 ++++++++++-
> drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h | 175 ---------
> 8 files changed, 831 insertions(+), 786 deletions(-)
>
>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 6:36 [-next] staging/vme: various fixes + new driver model for VME Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 01/30] staging/vme: style: convert '&(foo)' to '&foo' Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 02/30] staging/vme_user: return the appropriate error code when module_init fails Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 03/30] staging/vme_user: remove unreachable line Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 04/30] staging/vme: allow non-dynamic allocation of bus numbers Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 05/30] staging/vme: fix bogus clearing of the bus number in vme_free_bus_num Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 06/30] staging/vme/tsi148: use list_for_each_safe when deleting resources in .remove Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 07/30] staging/vme/tsi148: remove double freeing of the IRQ " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 08/30] staging/vme/tsi148: fix warning in free_irq Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 09/30] staging/vme: fill in struct device's .release, even if it's a NOOP Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 10/30] staging/vme/tsi148: remove unreachable line Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 11/30] staging/vme/tsi148: declare static functions as such Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 12/30] staging/vme/ca91cx42: " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 13/30] staging/vme_user: declare private variables as static Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 14/30] staging/vme_user: use an unsigned int for counting the number of kparams Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 15/30] staging/vme_user: remove __iomem marking from kern_buf and derivates Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 16/30] staging/vme_user: mark user-space buffers with __user Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 17/30] staging/vme: mark struct vme_master_resource's base address pointer as __iomem Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 18/30] staging/vme/tsi148: mark the registers' " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 19/30] staging/vme/ca91cx42: " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 20/30] staging/vme: trivial: rename vme_bus_num_mtx to vme_buses_lock Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 21/30] staging/vme: keep a list of registered buses (bridges) Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 22/30] staging/vme/vme_user: use __dev{init,exit} for .probe and .remove Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 23/30] staging/vme_user: fix usage of the slave resources after they've been freed Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 24/30] staging/vme_user: remove unnecessary call to vme_slave_set Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 25/30] staging/vme_user: add missing calls to vme_master_free calls in .remove Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 26/30] staging/vme: move all contents of vme_bridge.h to vme.h Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 27/30] staging/vme: rework the bus model Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 23:27 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-25 11:24 ` Martyn Welch
2010-10-26 1:02 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-27 9:16 ` Martyn Welch
2010-10-27 15:40 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 28/30] staging/vme: convert vme_* users to vme_*_ng Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 29/30] staging/vme: remove unused vme_* functions and related code Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 30/30] staging/vme: remove _ng suffixes Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 9:26 ` [-next] staging/vme: various fixes + new driver model for VME Martyn Welch
2010-10-22 23:03 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 10:08 ` Martyn Welch [this message]
2010-10-22 23:04 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 13:56 ` Greg KH
2010-10-22 22:56 ` Emilio G. Cota
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