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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:59:48 +0900
From: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
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To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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        Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: introduce fw_driver.probe and .remove methods
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Hi Stefan and Greg,

I test Stefan's patches and it works well with my devices.

 > This is one of two(?) drivers on which he is currently working on;

Yes. I'm developing for two driver modules for some firewire sound 
device. One is "snd-fireworks" as Stefan mentioned and another is 
"snd-bebob" for BridgeCo.'s BeBoB based firewire sound devices. Both of 
them is now out of tree and in my github repository.

 >> Are there other firewire drivers in other trees in linux-next
 >> right now?

I know the persons who work for "snd-dice", an driver module is for TC 
Applied Technologies' Dice based firewire sound devices. I'll inform 
them about your patches and topic branch.


Thanks a lot!

Takashi Sakamoto
o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp

(Jun 03 2013 08:35), Stefan Richter wrote:
> On Jun 02 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:27:49AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> Although all in-tree drivers are being converted to the new methods,
>>> support for the old methods is left in place for the time being, aiming
>>> to avoid conflicts if/when new drivers are being merged into the
>>> mainline via other trees.
>>
>> Are there other firewire drivers in other trees in linux-next right now?
>> If not, I'd just recommend converting everything over and not using the
>> old functions at all.  Especially as there really isn't that many
>> firewire drivers, and new ones are pretty rare these days, right?
>
> I think there is none in -next at the moment.  But Sakamoto-san posted an
> RFC just two days ago:
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2013-June/062614.html
>
> This is one of two(?) drivers on which he is currently working on; the
> other one is the one which is going to need the new id argument
> in .probe().  And then there is another person working on yet another
> sound/firewire/ driver, but upstreaming of that driver might take a
> little more time for some more integration steps, from what I heard.
>
> So, alternatively I could fold "firewire: remove support of
> fw_driver.driver.probe and .remove methods" into this one and commit it to
> a stable topic branch in linux1394.git (to be merged early after 3.10),
> and the audio driver developers could pull this topic branch if they want
> to and when they want to.
>
>> Other than that, your patch looks good.
>
> Thanks for review.

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