Re: [PATCH 0/5] Make xHCI driver endian-safe, add a barrier, some debug

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On 29/03/11 09:16, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:43:44PM +1100, Matt Evans wrote:
>> Hi Sarah,
>>
>>
>> This series addresses the endian issues with the xHCI driver, and has brought
>> lovely USB 3 to PPC. :-)  I've tested various types of traffic on ppc4xx and
>> POWER7 and (some sound driver bugs notwithstanding) all seems fine.  Also
>> addresses an ordering problem we found and the recursive nature of the event
>> handling, plus the addition of some debug.
> 
> Thanks for doing this work, Matt!  I appreciate it.

Hey, no worries!  I've got some $3 USB speakers I wanted to connect to the
$15,000 POWER server, you know how it goes.

>> This should apply to 2.6.38/Linus' tree.
> 
> You say that these apply against 2.6.38, but recently a lot of xHCI
> changes went into Linus' tree to support USB 3.0 hubs in 2.6.39.  Will
> these patches still apply against Linus' latest tree?  If not, I suggest
> you base your patches against Greg KH's usb-linus branch, as that's my
> tree base:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/usb-linus

Sorry, I wasn't too explicit about that; I'd meant "Linus' tree as of todayish"
and I believe I caught said USB 3.0 changes, but I'll rebase from usb-linus
anyway to make sure we're fine.

> Also, I haven't read too far into the patches, but the first patch seems
> to have several one or two letter variable names, like "f" and "di".
> Can you make those variable names more descriptive?  Thanks.

Sure; they were single-use throwaways to break long RMW lines but I've rejiggled
& removed them.

Thanks for looking, I'll repost v3 with tidyups.


Cheers,


Matt
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