Re: [Xen-devel] pvusb drivers for pvops 2.6.32.x kernel

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0800, Nathanael Rensen wrote:
> Hi Pasi,
> 

Hello,

(I added Konrad and xen-devel to CC list, hopefully that's ok..)

> It's been a very long time since we discussed PVUSB - I haven't given
> up, just been caught up with other things.
> 

Great! Really nice to hear from you again..

Just last weekend I fetched the opensuse Linux 3.2 kernel-xen src.rpm,
extracted the xen patches, and started preparing to re-port the driver to pvops.
So now I don't have to finish that :)

> I've updated the PVUSB patch, done some refactoring and cleaned up the
> checkpatch warnings.
> The patch is targetted at linux-next, but it also applies cleanly to
> Konrad's linux-next branch:
> 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~nathanael/0001-pvusb-driver.linux-next.patch
> 
> I haven't done a lot of testing, but it does work for my basic test
> (USB TV-tuner). My next step is to get in contact with the USB
> maintainer and see what further changes are required in order to get
> this work upstreamed. In the meantime, the more testing and exposure
> the patch gets the better.
> 

I'm sure we can get people testing this patch. Many people have been asking
for USB passthru solution for Linux 3.x.


> Thanks,
> 

Thanks a lot!


-- Pasi

> Nathanael
> 
> On 23 March 2011 22:42, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:28:19PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>
> >> > I also noticed the frontend driver was producing a warning when
> >> > loading which is resolved by setting the module owner.
> >> >
> >> > I've placed an updated diff here:
> >> > http://members.iinet.net.au/~nathanael/pvusb.diff
> >> >
> >>
> >> Great, thanks.
> >>
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > Nathanael: Did you have time to take a look at upstreaming xen pvusb 
> > drivers ?
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >

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