Re: [Xen-devel] Xen pvusb drivers for upstream Linux 3.x kernels

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:40:59PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:59:30AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0800, Nathanael Rensen wrote:
> > > Hi Pasi,
> > > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > (I added Konrad and xen-devel to CC list, hopefully that's ok..)
> 
> And let me add James Harper here since he was doing some testing with
> the Windows GPL PV USB driver as well
> 

And let's modify the subject aswell :) 

-- Pasi

> 
> > 
> > > It's been a very long time since we discussed PVUSB - I haven't given
> > > up, just been caught up with other things.
> > > 
> > 
> > Great! Really nice to hear from you again..
> > 
> > Just last weekend I fetched the opensuse Linux 3.2 kernel-xen src.rpm,
> > extracted the xen patches, and started preparing to re-port the driver to 
> > pvops.
> > So now I don't have to finish that :)
> > 
> > > I've updated the PVUSB patch, done some refactoring and cleaned up the
> > > checkpatch warnings.
> > > The patch is targetted at linux-next, but it also applies cleanly to
> > > Konrad's linux-next branch:
> > > 
> > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~nathanael/0001-pvusb-driver.linux-next.patch
> > > 
> > > I haven't done a lot of testing, but it does work for my basic test
> > > (USB TV-tuner). My next step is to get in contact with the USB
> > > maintainer and see what further changes are required in order to get
> > > this work upstreamed. In the meantime, the more testing and exposure
> > > the patch gets the better.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm sure we can get people testing this patch. Many people have been asking
> > for USB passthru solution for Linux 3.x.
> > 
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot!
> > 
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
> > > Nathanael
> > > 
> > > On 23 March 2011 22:42, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:28:19PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > I also noticed the frontend driver was producing a warning when
> > > >> > loading which is resolved by setting the module owner.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I've placed an updated diff here:
> > > >> > http://members.iinet.net.au/~nathanael/pvusb.diff
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> Great, thanks.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Hello again,
> > > >
> > > > Nathanael: Did you have time to take a look at upstreaming xen pvusb 
> > > > drivers ?
> > > >
> > > > -- Pasi
> > > >
> > 
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