[PATCH 140/641] Staging: HTC Dream: add smd code

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Tue Sep 15 22:50:47 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:49:09AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2009-09-15 13:20:52, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:26:33PM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de> wrote:
> > > > From: Brian Swetland <swetland at google.com>
> > > >
> > > > Infrastructure to support the Qualcomm "shared memory driver"
> > > > interface, used to communicate with the baseband processor on MSM7k
> > > > SoCs.  The smd core provides low level facilities to interact with the
> > > > shared memory comms region, and a "virtual serial channel" interface
> > > > that higher level transports (AT command channel, rmnet virtual
> > > > ethernet, qmi network management protocol, and oncrpc, for example)
> > > > are routed over.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
> > > > Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland at google.com>
> > > > Cc: Iliyan Malchev <ibm at android.com>
> > > > Cc: San Mehat <san at android.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/staging/dream/smd/smd.c         | 1330 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/staging/dream/smd/smd_private.h |  171 ++++
> > > >  drivers/staging/dream/smd/smd_qmi.c     |  860 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/staging/dream/smd/smd_tty.c     |  213 +++++
> > > 
> > > Minor nitpick, but the smd stuff is msm7k generic (applies to surf,
> > > dream, magic, hero, etc).  I still think the smd core *probably*
> > > belongs under arch/arm/mach-msm in that it's pretty tightly fused to
> > > the baseband side of the 7k/8k SoCs and not really useful external to
> > > that.
> 
> The goal is to put it into the mach-msm at the end...

That would be good.

> > Yeah, I'm not happy with the stuff under drivers/staging/dream/ right
> > now at all.  I'm wondering if I should just toss it all out andhave
> > Pavel start over :(
> 
> Juggling around 100K+ patches is not exactly fun&easy task, please
> don't make do it again...

Hey, I'm having to do this juggling now, it's either me or you :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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