[PATCH] comedi vmk80xx: Add support for treating DIO lines as a block

[Greg KH]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:14:15PM +0100, J. Ali Harlow wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 12:55 -0700, "Greg KH" <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> [snip] 
> > 
> > I need a "Signed-off-by:" line as described in the file,
> > Documentation/SubmittingPatches in order to be able to accept this
> > patch.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> > > diff -Naurd linux-staging-2.6.32.8/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c linux-staging-2.6.32.8-bis/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c
> > 
> > The 2.6.32.8 kernel is _very_ old, can you please generate this patch
> > against the latest development kernel instead so that we can apply it
> > properly?
> 
> Yes, I think I can do that. I won't be able to test it, but I don't
> suppose that matters. Can you help a complete newbie and tell me which
> version the latest development kernel relates to? I see on the front
> page of kernel.org, linux-next, snapshot and mainline. Is it one of
> them, or something else?

linux-next is best if you can use that, but in this case, Linus's latest
version (2.6.39-rc7 right now) is great, or even 2.6.38 is fine as well.

Just something a bit newer than 2.6.32 is best, given how old that is :)

thanks,

greg k-h