From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] staging: Add firewire-serial driver
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:45:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121022224505.GD24489@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350565015.23730.4.camel@thor>
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<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
I'd like to get an Ack from Stefan here, before I'll add this to the
staging tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-22 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-18 12:56 [PATCH 0/1] staging: Add firewire-serial driver Peter Hurley
2012-10-22 22:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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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