Re: [PATCH v2] vme: change LM callback argument to void pointer

2016-05-03 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Dan, On 30 April 2016 at 12:16, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Aaron Sierra wrote: >> There appear to be no in-kernel callers of vme_lm_attach (or >> vme_lme_request for that matter), so this change only affects the VME >> subsystem and bridge drivers. > > Are we

Re: [PATCH v2] vme: change LM callback argument to void pointer

2016-05-04 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Dan, Aaron, On 3 May 2016 at 15:18, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 02:52:54PM +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: [...] >> It would be great since we have a lot of VME drivers (for devices not >> for bridges) which we would like see mainlined. >> Unfortuna

Re: [PATCHv3 08/16] staging: vme_user: provide DMA functionality

2015-07-07 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Hi Dmitry, On 6 July 2015 at 19:24, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote: [...] > > I'm not a VME expert, but it seems that VME windows are a quiet limited > resource > no matter how you allocate your resources. Theoretically we could put up to 32 > different boards in a single crate, so there won't be enough

Re: [PATCHv3 08/16] staging: vme_user: provide DMA functionality

2015-07-07 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
nce it > doesn’t > have the limitations that the windows have. > On 07 Jul 2015, at 10:08, Alessio Igor Bogani > wrote: [...] >> In fact this is a big obstacle for adoption of this VME stack (at least for >> us). We use VME a lot and we care about latency as well so we use o

[PATCH 1/1] vme: Fix module autoload

2016-06-14 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
These drivers have a PCI device ID table but the PCI module alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani --- drivers/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.c | 2 ++ drivers/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

Re: [PATCHv5] staging: vme_user: provide DMA functionality

2015-10-19 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Hi, On 19 October 2015 at 00:04, Martyn Welch wrote: > On 18/10/15 18:53, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote: [...] >> Other drives meaning vme_pio, I don't see any others. All this time >> we are discussing how many GE PIO boards one can plug into a crate >> with or without vme_user. Most of people have zero

Re: [PATCHv5] staging: vme_user: provide DMA functionality

2015-10-19 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Hi, On 19 October 2015 at 11:19, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote: [...] > There is no optimal solution. In vanilla kernel you have just two drivers. You > can either have 8 GE PIO2 boards or 4 GE PIO2 boards and any amount of boards > potentially accessible through vme_user. None of this provides for the c