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* [PATCH 0/1] staging: Add firewire-serial driver
@ 2012-10-18 12:56 Peter Hurley
  2012-10-22 22:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  2012-11-02 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 " Peter Hurley
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Peter Hurley @ 2012-10-18 12:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Stefan Richter; +Cc: devel, linux-kernel, linux1394-devel

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<n>~fwtty<n+3> and fwloop<n>).

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

 drivers/staging/Kconfig             |    2 +
 drivers/staging/Makefile            |    1 +
 drivers/staging/fwserial/Kconfig    |    9 +
 drivers/staging/fwserial/Makefile   |    2 +
 drivers/staging/fwserial/TODO       |   89 ++
 drivers/staging/fwserial/dma_fifo.c |  310 ++++
 drivers/staging/fwserial/dma_fifo.h |  130 ++
 drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c | 2885 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.h |  355 +++++
 9 files changed, 3783 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fwserial/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fwserial/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fwserial/TODO
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fwserial/dma_fifo.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fwserial/dma_fifo.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.h

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1.7.12.3




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2012-10-18 12:56 [PATCH 0/1] staging: Add firewire-serial driver Peter Hurley
2012-10-22 22:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-23  2:34   ` Peter Hurley
2012-10-23  3:15     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-23  9:51     ` Alan Cox
2012-10-23 16:30       ` Peter Hurley
2012-10-23 18:41         ` Stefan Richter
2012-10-24 13:41   ` Stefan Richter
2012-10-24 15:56     ` Peter Hurley
2012-11-02 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 " Peter Hurley
2012-11-02 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] staging: fwserial: Add TTY-over-Firewire serial driver Peter Hurley
2012-11-12 23:33     ` Stefan Richter
2012-11-12 23:51       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-11-13 19:37         ` Peter Hurley
2012-11-13 19:47           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-11-13 19:14       ` Peter Hurley
2012-11-14  1:25         ` Stefan Richter
2012-11-27 18:33           ` Peter Hurley
2012-11-27 23:58             ` Stefan Richter
2012-11-28  1:00               ` Peter Hurley

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