On 07/18/2013 01:40 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:26:55AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
On 07/17/2013 05:49 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:18:01PM -0400, Lidza Louina wrote:
This patch adds the Digi driver to staging.
Which digi driver? For what hardware? What type of driver is it?
Please provide some more details here.
From the readme:
This Digi software package includes device drivers for the PCI models
of the Digi Neo and ClassicBoard series of products.
It is currently supported on the following hardware platforms:
o Standard i386/i486 and Pentium PC (x86 32bit)
o x86 64bit
I was "hinting" that this needed to be explained in the changelog entry.
The part about the architectures is not needed, as, unless something
really strange is going on in the driver, it should work on all cpus
that support PCI, right?
That I cannot attest to. The readme also says:
o Standard i386/i486 and Pentium PC (x86 32bit)
o x86 64bit
I can only personally vouch for Intel/Amd CPUs running in 32 bit mode.
It builds. Needs work done
to adapt to the API changes.
Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@xxxxxxxxx>
If at all possible, can we attribute this to the original author(s)?
Are their names in the driver somewhere?
* Copyright 2003 Digi International (www.digi.com)
* Scott H Kilau <Scott_Kilau at digi dot com>
Cool, that's a good start. Lidza, can you use this as the "From:" email
address for the initial import? Then do follow-on patches that add it
to the build with your own Makefile and Kbuild files, and then any
follow-on patches fixing issues. That way Scott gets the proper credit
for the initial code, and you get the credit for doing all of the work
to include it into the tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
.
Just to insure there is no duplication of work going on, I see 4 Digi
drivers referenced at:
http://linuxdriverproject.org/mediawiki/index.php/Out_Of_Tree_Drivers#Multiport_Serial_Devices
Should I assume that info was put there prior to and expecting for Lidza
to start this project??
Regards
Mark
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