From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] ARCNET: Defibrillation
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:14:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <553AB241.3080004@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429901273.23327.5.camel@perches.com>
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On 04/24/2015 08:47 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 19:20 +0200, Michael Grzeschik wrote:
>> Hi!
>
> Hello.
>
>> This patch series tries to reanimate the ARCNET hardware layer to be
>> somehow readable and maintainable again. It includes a lot of cleanup
>> patches. It also adds some fixes which leads the layer to become usable
>> again. And as a special treatment it adds more features like correct
>> loading and unloading of the com20020 card.
>
> Wow. Good for you, but why? Does anyone still use these?
Yes, there are parts of the industry where "old" machines are
retrofitted with new hardware...and a lot of these machines still talk
ARCNET :)
Marc
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-24 17:20 [PATCH 00/21] ARCNET: Defibrillation Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 01/21] com20020-pci: add dev_port for udev handling Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 02/21] ARCNET: fix hard_header_len limit Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 03/21] ARCNET: capmode: fix transfer length Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 04/21] ARCNET: whitespace, tab and codingstyle fixes Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 05/21] ARCNET: remove unneeded macros Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 06/21] ARCNET: com20020: " Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 23:04 ` Joe Perches
2015-04-25 3:59 ` David Miller
2015-04-27 14:13 ` Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 07/21] ARCNET: rimi: " Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 08/21] ARCNET: com90io: " Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 09/21] ARCNET: com90xx: " Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 10/21] ARCNET: com20020: fix ioaddr prefixes Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 11/21] ARCNET: rimi: " Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 12/21] ARCNET: com90io: " Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 13/21] ARCNET: com90xx: " Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 14/21] ARCNET: arc-rawmode: reorder module functions Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 15/21] ARCNET: capmode: remove extra function and use C99 in struct Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 16/21] ARCNET: capmode: move dev_free_skb to its only user Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 17/21] ARCNET: com20020: replace magic numbers with readable macros Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 18/21] ARCNET: com20020: remove obsolete BUS_ALIGN offset factor Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 19/21] ARCNET: com20020: add enable and disable device on open/close Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 20/21] ARCNET: com20020-pci: reformat structs to C99 format Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 21/21] ARCNET: com20020-pci: add rotary index support Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-24 18:47 ` [PATCH 00/21] ARCNET: Defibrillation Joe Perches
2015-04-24 21:14 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2015-04-25 3:58 ` David Miller
2015-04-25 4:52 ` Joe Perches
2015-04-27 14:57 ` Michael Grzeschik
2015-04-30 3:49 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-05 16:43 ` Michael Grzeschik
2015-05-05 17:02 ` Joe Perches
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