Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:06:59 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/03] USB-IP patches |
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Em Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:00:16PM -0700, greg@kroah.com escreveu: > Here's 3 patches that adds USB-IP functionality code to the kernel tree. > > It is against 2.6.27-rc4, and has been added to the -staging tree. If > there are no major objections, I'll also queue it up in the usb tree for > submission into 2.6.28. > > The code is based on Takahiro's great work that has been sitting outside > of the kernel for many many years now. Brian Merrell took the most > recent version of the code, cleaned it up and sent it to me. I did more > cleanup and split the patch into 3 pieces, making it a bit easier to > work with. > > There are still a number of checkpatch.pl warnings/errors emitted, and > Brian said he would work on them in the upcoming weeks, but they don't > distract from the basic functionality and a good review would be nice to > have. > > We do need some more documentation for how to use this code (you need > the tools at usbip.sf.net), and how the sysfs files are exporting data > to userspace. Brian, can you write up the sysfs interface in the format > that Documentation/ABI/ details and also provide some kind of basic > HOWTO to include in the kernel source tree?
Great stuff, I almost worked on udp_hcd or something along these lines, will definetely take a look! :-)
- Arnaldo
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