From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752898AbZHHWqx (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:46:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752666AbZHHWqx (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:46:53 -0400 Received: from statler.bytemark.co.uk ([212.110.162.18]:34600 "EHLO statler.bytemark.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752668AbZHHWqw (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:46:52 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1243 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:46:52 EDT Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:25:53 +0200 From: "Emilio G. Cota" To: Greg K-H Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Martyn Welch , Sebastien Dugue Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] [ANNOUNCE] VME Bus drivers and framework for Linux Message-ID: <20090808222552.GA27151@braap.org> References: <20090803210054.GA28430@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090803210054.GA28430@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg K-H wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's 5 patches from Martyn Welch that adds VME Bus support to the > kernel. > > Martyn took the time and merged the three different existing > implementations for Linux together into something that works, and got > the proper legal agreements from all of the affected parties to release > the code properly. > > I'd like to thank him for taking the time to do this work, it is much > appreciated. > > These patches all add the code under the drivers/staging/ directory, as > there is still a number of things that needs to be done to clean up the > code to get it into "proper" mergable state, but it's a great first cut. > > Thanks again Martyn! > > greg k-h whoops just spotted this.. I had allocated next month for working on this, i.e. getting VME support into the kernel. I work at CERN where we have hundreds of VME crates; we're currently moving from LynxOS to real-time linux. The VME chipset we're using is the tsi148, for which Sebastien Dugue wrote a driver at the beginning of the year. I'll reply to each of the relevant patches to comment on them. Regards, E.