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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:45:05 -0700
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,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] staging: Add firewire-serial driver
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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