On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:43:03PM -0500, Watkins, Melissa wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 02:01:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:15:39PM +0530, Subhasish Ghosh wrote: > > > > This patch adds the pruss MFD driver and associated include files. > > > > For details regarding the PRUSS please refer the folowing link: > > > > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Programmable_Realtime_Unit_Subsystem > > > > > > > > The rational behind the MFD driver being the fact that multiple devices can > > > > be implemented on the cores independently. This is determined by the nature > > > > of the program which is loaded into the PRU's instruction memory. > > > > A device may be de-initialized and another loaded or two different devices > > > > can be run simultaneously on the two cores. > > > > It's also possible, as in our case, to implement a single device on both > > > > the PRU's resulting in improved load sharing. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Subhasish Ghosh <subhasish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > [MW] Greg, thanks for reviewing Mistral's patch submission. I have > been following the traffic on their patches and will provide an > initial response to address some of your questions. > > > > Please refresh my memory as to why this can't get merged into the > > > "normal" part of the kernel? > > [MW] Arnd had recommended moving the driver to the staging area until > all interfaces have stabilized. One of the main reasons it cannot > currently be merged in the "normal" part of the kernel is the question > of how firmware should be configured and loaded. > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/230, > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/10/463) > > > Dropped from my queue due to lack of response :( > > > Please resend when you get the chance, and address the above comment in > > your changelog entry (and in your TODO file as well.) > > [MW] Please let us know if Mistral still needs to resubmit their patch > or if we can continue discussions on this submission. Please resend it, with the above information in the changelog and in the TODO file. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
