Re: [-next] staging/vme: various fixes + new driver model for VME

[Martyn Welch]

On 22/10/10 07:36, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> This contains first a whole bunch of fixes to the existing vme
> code in staging, to then introduce a new driver model for VME
> in patch 27.
> 

Emilio,

The VME drivers are currently in the staging tree - please can you post
these patches to the mailing list identified in the maintainers file
(devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) so that these modifications can be
discussed there.

MArtyn


> I have a short list of things to do after this patchset gets
> reviewed:
> 
> - provide a saner API for VME drivers that just want to
>   map/unmap chunks of memory (knowing nothing about underlying
>   hardware features, such as windows). This is already
>   implemented in the out-of-tree driver in [1].
> 
> - Make DMA work on the tsi148 (it's the only bridge I've got).
>   This will probably involve changing or extending the
>   current API.
> 
> - Test the whole thing with real hardware and a real VME driver
>   (currently out of tree as well, see [2]), which I'll try
>   to get merged, too--currently we just have vme_user.c which
>   really isn't a kosher driver.
> 
> 
> 
> Note that the appended applies on top of linux-next.
> 
> The patchset can be pulled from:
> git://github.com/cota/linux-2.6.git vme-next
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>                 Emilio
> 
> 
> [1] http://repo.or.cz/w/ht-drivers.git/tree/HEAD:/vmebridge/driver
> [2] http://repo.or.cz/w/ht-drivers.git/tree/HEAD:/sis33/drivers
> 
> diffstat:
> 
>  drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.c |  222 ++++++------
>  drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.h |    2 +-
>  drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.c   |  259 +++++++-------
>  drivers/staging/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.h   |    2 +-
>  drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c     |  159 ++++-----
>  drivers/staging/vme/vme.c                  |  569 +++++++++++++++-------------
>  drivers/staging/vme/vme.h                  |  229 ++++++++++-
>  drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h           |  175 ---------
>  8 files changed, 831 insertions(+), 786 deletions(-)
> 
> 


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