On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 06:30:19AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18 2016, 12:07 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:48:36AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote: > > > > BTW, it is quite a shame that the Thunderbolt firmware version can't > > > > be read from Linux. > > > > > > > > > > This is WIP, once this patch will be upstream, we will be able to > > > focus more on aligning Linux with the Thunderbolt features that we have > > for windows. > > > > Why is this patch somehow holding that work back? You aren't just sitting > > around waiting for people to review this and not doing anything else, right? > > Is there some basic building block in these patches that your firmware > > download code is going to rely on? > > > > confused, > > > > greg k-h > > All the Thunderbolt SW features (including networking and FW update) depend > on the communication with FW, which is patch 3/8 in the series. > The patch also sets up a generic netlink for user space communication. It's that "generic netlink" connection that I really want a whole lot of revewers to read over as it's very unusual and "different" from all other driver subsystems. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
