Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:50:08 -0600 | | From | "Brian G. Merrell" <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 00/03] USB-IP patches | |
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:00:16PM -0700, greg@kroah.com wrote:
> 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.
I will indeed continue to work on getting rid of the checkpatch.pl
warnings/errors during the upcoming weeks. I already eliminated the
ones I could figure out without too much effort; I am sure the
remaining ones are trivial to many of you out there, so I welcome
any suggestions.
> > 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?
Yes, I would be happy to work on this.
> > thanks,> > greg k-h
Thanks,
Brian G. Merrell
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