Re: Linux 3.3-1 out - merge window closed

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:56:22 +0100, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 01:32 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> >  >  >
> >> >  >  >  * The code is completely self contained, and the only few external
> >> >  >  >  places it changes amount to grabbing a new virtio id (which is
> >> >  >  >  Acked-by Rusty) and some OMAP init platform code (which is Acked-by
> >> >  >  >  Tony). People who aren't explicitly using it won't notice it's there;
> >> >  >  >  even its Kconfig entries get selected automatically when relevant
> >> >  >  >  (i.e. only on OMAP4 at this point) and would never show up otherwise.
> >>  >
> >>  >  Hi Linus,
> >>  >
> >>  >  I'd also like to see this merged.  Rather than going off and inventing
> >>  >  something completely new, Ohad has built on the existing virtio
> >>  >  infrastructure to implement IPC between CPUs and DSPs running
> >>  >  different operating environments.  This is a strong step in the
> >>  >  RightDirection(tm) in my opinion and such behaviour should be
> >>  >  encouraged.:-)
> 
> I didn't see any virtio spec patches for rpmsg, with the result that 
> virtio id 7 is being used also by the virtio-scsi patches.  I can 
> certainly push virtio-scsi to 8, but perhaps there's something to 
> improve on the communication side...
> 
> The code for both drivers seems more or less at the same stage ("wait 
> for someone to pull", respectively Linus and James Bottomley).

Sorry I didn't spot this myself.  I tend to hand out numbers before the
spec is complete, to avoid this kind of problem.  But you should also
ask for a number for the same reason :)

rpmsg definitely got assigned 7 in my copy of the spec already, but I
was remiss in not publishing it earlier.  I have added scsi as 8, please
change.

Ohad, do you have an up-to-date lyx patch for me with the final spec?

Thanks,
Rusty.