Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755063AbXEBMOf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 08:14:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755170AbXEBMOe (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 08:14:34 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:58608 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755063AbXEBMOc (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 08:14:32 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 14:13:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [git pull] New firewire stack To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Kristian H??gsberg , Linus Torvalds , LKML , Andrew Morton , linux1394-devel In-Reply-To: <20070502090007.GA28174@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <4637A29F.6070302@redhat.com> <20070502090007.GA28174@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-Disposition: INLINE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1867 Lines: 53 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:27:11PM -0400, Kristian H??gsberg wrote: >> Hi Linus, >> >> As you may know, we've been working on a new FireWire stack over on >> linux1394-devel. The main driver behind this work is to get a small, >> maintainable and supportable FireWire stack, with an acceptable >> backwards compatibility story. > > Please send out patches for review first. > Yes, it's been a while since the last submission for review [1], and most of the changes went over linux1394-devel only. And to put it mildly, there aren't a lot of capable reviewers watching that list. Changes since last submission, AFAIR: - completion of the DMA engine - completion of the userspace ABI - extensions to exported sysfs attributes - some other feature additions like bus manager capability - lots of bug fixes - some style fixes I'll folllow up with "git diff v2.6.21-rc3..juju" ripped apart, reordered, and refreshed against 2.6.21: [PATCH 1/6] firewire: handling of cards, buses, nodes [PATCH 2/6] firewire: isochronous and asynchronous I/O [PATCH 3/6] firewire: char device interface [PATCH 4/6] firewire: OHCI-1394 lowlevel driver [PATCH 5/6] firewire: SBP-2 highlevel driver [PATCH 6/6] firewire: add it all to kbuild (If this division seems odd, don't blame Kristian, blame me. :-) I'm looking forward to comments. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/19/306 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/19/307 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/19/309 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/19/310 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/19/308 -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/