Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:45:05 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | 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
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