Re: [PATCH 0/8] VME Driver Fixes

[Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>]

On 01/08/11 11:20, Manohar Vanga wrote:
> A little background: I work at CERN in the device drivers section and
> we have a lot of VME crates we use in the accelerator controls. We have
> been using an in-house driver for some time now and want to slowly port
> our existing device drivers over to the kernel driver.
> 
> This set of patches adds multiple changes to the VME driver that fix
> various issues, mostly dealing with the device driver model. 

Please can you update the vme_api.txt document as well to fully reflect the
proposed changes.

Martyn

> Some of
> these are based on the changes made by Emilio G. Cota in a previous
> LKML thread at:
> 
>     https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/25/480
> 



> Thanks and best regards,
> Manohar Vanga
> 
> Emilio G. Cota (1):
>   staging: vme: allow explicit assignment of bus numbers
> 
> Manohar Vanga (7):
>   staging: vme_user: change kmalloc+memset to kzalloc
>   staging: vme: make [alloc|free]_consistent bridge specific
>   staging: vme: keep track of registered buses
>   staging: vme: add functions for bridge module refcounting
>   staging: vme: rename *_slot_get to *_get_slot
>   staging: vme: add struct vme_dev for VME devices
>   staging: vme: make match() driver specific to improve non-VME64x
>     support
> 
>  drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.c |   54 ++++-
>  drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.c   |   53 ++++-
>  drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c     |   63 ++++-
>  drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.h     |    2 +-
>  drivers/staging/vme/vme.c                  |  414 ++++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/staging/vme/vme.h                  |   56 +++-
>  drivers/staging/vme/vme_api.txt            |    2 +-
>  drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h           |   19 +-
>  8 files changed, 435 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)
> 


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