Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754095Ab1EITVS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2011 15:21:18 -0400 Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.8]:60671 "HELO oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754039Ab1EITVR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2011 15:21:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=LGPBLbbdQdMA1rpuq1Cjd5x70IGxx4zyCgs/UJIA44srzCiYWbCZcZyTZUc1wwq5rKZzkxOc0THatas3h3crjFp7M96XSpxA2bb9aHh8QVsFNhdmb+K4nkjmAZAyG5XV; Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 12:20:51 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes To: Jianyun Li Cc: James.Bottomley@suse.de, Jianyun Li , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org (open list:SCSI SUBSYSTEM), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list), linux-pci@vger.kernel.org (open list:PCI SUBSYSTEM) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add Marvell UMI driver Message-ID: <20110509122051.33f1672f@jbarnes-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1304943577-2876-1-git-send-email-jianyunff@gmail.com> References: <1304943577-2876-1-git-send-email-jianyunff@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 67.161.37.189 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1030 Lines: 25 On Mon, 9 May 2011 20:19:33 +0800 Jianyun Li wrote: > The Marvell Universal Message Interface (UMI) defines a messaging > interface between host and Marvell products (Plato, for example). It > considers situations of limited system resource and optimized system > performance. > UMI driver translates host request to message and sends message > to FW via UMI, FW receives message and processes it, then sends response > to UMI driver. > FW generates an interrupt when it needs to send information or > response to UMI driver > Unless you're using the PCI ID outside of this driver, you can just put it in your header file rather than pci_ids.h, which is meant for IDs that are shared between modules. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/