From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [00/22] Cyclades PC300 driver: summary of patch series Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:28:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20120130102815.3e01acc4@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20120130024243.GA10262@cronus.persephoneslair.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, khc@pm.waw.pl, davem@davemloft.net, mmarek@suse.cz, jkosina@suse.cz, joe@perches.com, justinmattock@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de, alan@linux.intel.com, jdmason@kudzu.us To: Andrea Shepard Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120130024243.GA10262@cronus.persephoneslair.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:42:43 -0800 Andrea Shepard wrote: > The Cyclades PC-300 is a line of PCI synchronous serial cards, which was > produced in single and dual port models with either T1/E1 or V.35 ports. > It used a Hitachi HD64572 (SCA-II) synchronous serial chip, and in the > T1/E1 models an Infineon FALC-LH line interface/framing chip. Copies > of the hardware documentation may be found at [1]. The cleanup is better than it was but has lots left to sort. I think this may actually be a good example of where the staging tree is useful as it'll avoid this turning into a hundred cycles of adding another patch to the enormous pile and can instead be done in step by step. Alan