Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932400Ab2JVWpM (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:45:12 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:54414 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932218Ab2JVWpJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:45:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:45:05 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Peter Hurley Cc: Stefan Richter , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] staging: Add firewire-serial driver Message-ID: <20121022224505.GD24489@kroah.com> References: <1350565015.23730.4.camel@thor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1350565015.23730.4.camel@thor> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1274 Lines: 30 On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:56:55AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > Please consider this serial driver for review for submission to staging. > The firewire-serial driver implements TTY over IEEE 1394. In its default > configuration, it creates 4 TTY devices and one loopback device per > firewire card (respectively, named fwtty~fwtty and fwloop). > > Currently, the TTY devices auto-connect to every cabled peer (the TODO > list includes plans for providing a sysfs interface to control virtual > cabling with whitelist/blacklist support per GUID). > > Efforts are still ongoing for a companion console driver, with plans to > eventually add early_printk & kgdb support (via additional drivers). > > Some issues did arise with both the TTY and Firewire subsystems which > are noted in the TODO file. Please review these workarounds. > > Peter Hurley (1): > staging: fwserial: Add TTY-over-Firewire serial driver I'd like to get an Ack from Stefan here, before I'll add this to the staging tree. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/