From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755226Ab0JVKKW (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:10:22 -0400 Received: from exprod5og108.obsmtp.com ([64.18.0.186]:52331 "EHLO exprod5og108.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753905Ab0JVKKV (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:10:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC162BA.6080009@ge.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:08:58 +0100 From: Martyn Welch Organization: GE Intelligent Platforms User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101006 Thunderbird/3.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Emilio G. Cota" CC: Greg KH , LKML , Juan David Gonzalez Cobas Subject: Re: [-next] staging/vme: various fixes + new driver model for VME References: <1287729412-24356-1-git-send-email-cota@braap.org> In-Reply-To: <1287729412-24356-1-git-send-email-cota@braap.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Oct 2010 10:10:18.0606 (UTC) FILETIME=[544458E0:01CB71D1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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(-) > > -- Martyn Welch (Principal Software Engineer) | Registered in England and GE Intelligent Platforms | Wales (3828642) at 100 T +44(0)127322748 | Barbirolli Square, Manchester, E martyn.welch@ge.com | M2 3AB VAT:GB 927559189