On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:41:52AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 22:03 +0200, Andreas Noever wrote: > > Thunderbolt hotplug is supposed to be handled by the firmware. But Apple > > decided to implement thunderbolt at the operating system level. The > > firmare only initializes thunderbolt devices that are present at boot > > time. This driver enables hotplug of thunderbolt of non-chained > > thunderbolt devices on Apple systems with a cactus ridge controller. > > > > This first patch adds the Kconfig file as well the parts of the driver > > which talk directly to the hardware (that is pci device setup, interrupt > > handling and RX/TX ring management). > > > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noe...@gmail.com> > > --- > > This patch landed in today's linux-next (next-20140620). > > > [...] > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/Kconfig > > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ > > +menuconfig THUNDERBOLT > > + tristate "Thunderbolt support for Apple devices" > > + default no > > That should have been "default n". But "n" is the default anyway, so I'd > say this line might as well be dropped. Should I draft the trivial patch > to do that? > > > + help > > + Cactus Ridge Thunderbolt Controller driver > > + This driver is required if you want to hotplug Thunderbolt devices on > > + Apple hardware. > > + > > + Device chaining is currently not supported. > > + > > + To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be > > + called thunderbolt. > > (Naive question: is Thunderbolt relevant outside x86_64?)
It could be, if someone makes a board for it, I don't see anything on it that is x86-specific. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
