Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:06:59 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: greg@kroah.com
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Brian Merrell <bgmerrell@novell.com>,
       Takahiro Hirofuchi <hirofuchi@users.sourceforge.net>, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch 00/03] USB-IP patches
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Em Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:00:16PM -0700, greg@kroah.com escreveu:
> Here's 3 patches that adds USB-IP functionality code to the kernel tree.
> 
> It is against 2.6.27-rc4, and has been added to the -staging tree.  If
> there are no major objections, I'll also queue it up in the usb tree for
> submission into 2.6.28.
> 
> The code is based on Takahiro's great work that has been sitting outside
> of the kernel for many many years now.  Brian Merrell took the most
> recent version of the code, cleaned it up and sent it to me.  I did more
> cleanup and split the patch into 3 pieces, making it a bit easier to
> work with.
> 
> There are still a number of checkpatch.pl warnings/errors emitted, and
> Brian said he would work on them in the upcoming weeks, but they don't
> distract from the basic functionality and a good review would be nice to
> have.
> 
> We do need some more documentation for how to use this code (you need
> the tools at usbip.sf.net), and how the sysfs files are exporting data
> to userspace.  Brian, can you write up the sysfs interface in the format
> that Documentation/ABI/ details and also provide some kind of basic
> HOWTO to include in the kernel source tree?

Great stuff, I almost worked on udp_hcd or something along these lines,
will definetely take a look! :-)

- Arnaldo
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