Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752567AbcKRKGz (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2016 05:06:55 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53876 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751959AbcKRKGv (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2016 05:06:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:07:00 +0100 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: "Levy, Amir (Jer)" Cc: Simon Guinot , "andreas.noever@gmail.com" , "bhelgaas@google.com" , "corbet@lwn.net" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "mario_limonciello@dell.com" , thunderbolt-linux , "Westerberg, Mika" , "Winkler, Tomas" , "Zhang, Xiong Y" , "Jamet, Michael" , "remi.rerolle@seagate.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] thunderbolt: Introducing Thunderbolt(TM) Networking Message-ID: <20161118100700.GA7126@kroah.com> References: <1478701208-4585-1-git-send-email-amir.jer.levy@intel.com> <20161109143632.GE6167@kw.sim.vm.gnt> <20161115105920.GH6167@kw.sim.vm.gnt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 16 On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:48:36AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote: > > BTW, it is quite a shame that the Thunderbolt firmware version can't > > be read from Linux. > > > > This is WIP, once this patch will be upstream, we will be able to focus more > on aligning Linux with the Thunderbolt features that we have for windows. Why is this patch somehow holding that work back? You aren't just sitting around waiting for people to review this and not doing anything else, right? Is there some basic building block in these patches that your firmware download code is going to rely on? confused, greg k-h