Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755106AbYBZFU3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:20:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751412AbYBZFUV (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:20:21 -0500 Received: from pip23.gyao.ne.jp ([125.63.38.249]:36074 "EHLO mx.gate01.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751136AbYBZFUT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:20:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:20:09 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Adrian McMenamin Cc: Greg KH , LKML , linux-sh Subject: Re: [PATCH] maple: fix device detection Message-ID: <20080226052009.GA19814@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Adrian McMenamin , Greg KH , LKML , linux-sh References: <1203863423.6474.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1203889834.6474.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1203892373.6299.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080225053313.GA27064@renesas.com> <1203925226.6364.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1203925226.6364.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2330 Lines: 50 On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:40:26AM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:33 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:32:53PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 21:50 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 14:30 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > > > The maple bus driver that went into the kernel mainline in > > > > > September 2007 contained some bugs which were revealed by the > > > > > update of the kobj code for the current release series. > > > > > Unfortunately those bugs also helped ensure maple devices were > > > > > properly detected. This patch (against the current git) now ensures > > > > > that devices are properly detected again. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Further testing has shown this has introduced another bug, this time > > > > limiting the effectiveness of subdevice detection. Please ignore this > > > > while I work on a fix. > > > > > > > Sorry for the confusion, in fact there is nothing wrong with this code > > > (ie it should be applied), the error was in the driver for the Dreamcast > > > controller (the device, in general, into which the subdevices are > > > plugged in and out). > > > > > > I will post a fix for that. > > > > > > Sorry again. > > > > > So what exactly is supposed to be applied here? > > The patch at the start of this thread - ie > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/125 - this should really go in now as it > fixes a problem with current code. > Ok, that's applied. Note that the original body was horribly word wrapped, and your patch was not in -p1 format (while others in the series are, for reasons that aren't entirely obvious). > In addition there are two patch sets to add new device support: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/211 - maple controller > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/121 (thread) - maple mouse > This is not 2.6.25 material. Once you have Acked-by's from the input folks, I'll queue these up in my 2.6.26 tree. The bus unplug thing is rather unusual, I don't know if Greg has any comments on that or not. -- 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/