Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-29 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 29 December 2007, Alan Stern wrote: > lockdep warns whenever a task acquires a mutex while holding another > mutex of the same kind (that is, the same member in another structure > of the same type).  But there are lots of places where the kernel needs > to acquire dev->sem for one devi

Re: [RFC] USB driver for talking to the Microchip PIC18 boot loader

2007-12-29 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Dec 30, 2007 11:53 AM, mgross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, it has been done from user space using a libusb based > application. (that didn't work with a usb-hub in the loop) and had > code that was just too nasty for words, so I made a kernel driver that > looks nicer to me and enables a

Re: [RFC] USB driver for talking to the Microchip PIC18 boot loader

2007-12-29 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Dec 30, 2007 12:29 PM, mgross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The device ID's are different 0x000C in ldusb.c vrs 0x000b in the > driver I just posted. I know that. 000b is for the demo application. 000c is for the bootloader application. I am not a progammer myself but I think the USB communicat

Re: [RFC] USB driver for talking to the Microchip PIC18 boot loader

2007-12-29 Thread mgross
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:40:45AM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Dec 30, 2007 6:15 AM, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, mgross wrote: > > > > > I'm playing around with a PIC based project at home (not an Intel > > > activity) and found I needed a usb driver to talk t

Re: [RFC] USB driver for talking to the Microchip PIC18 boot loader

2007-12-29 Thread mgross
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:15:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, mgross wrote: > > > I'm playing around with a PIC based project at home (not an Intel > > activity) and found I needed a usb driver to talk to the boot loader > > so I can program my USB Bitwhacker with new custom f

Re: [RFC] USB driver for talking to the Microchip PIC18 boot loader

2007-12-29 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Dec 30, 2007 6:15 AM, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, mgross wrote: > > > I'm playing around with a PIC based project at home (not an Intel > > activity) and found I needed a usb driver to talk to the boot loader > > so I can program my USB Bitwhacker with new custom

Re: [RFC] USB driver for talking to the Microchip PIC18 boot loader

2007-12-29 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, mgross wrote: > I'm playing around with a PIC based project at home (not an Intel > activity) and found I needed a usb driver to talk to the boot loader > so I can program my USB Bitwhacker with new custom firmware. The > following adds the pic18bl driver to the kernel. Its

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-29 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Dave Young wrote: > On Dec 29, 2007 1:06 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 29, 2007 12:42 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:36:49AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > > > > > > > The full boot dmesg with lockdep output i

usblp not waiting for read data

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Mares
Hello, world! I am currently playing with HP LaserJet P2015D connected over USB and I have a slight problem with the usblp driver there. Whenever I try to read from /dev/usb/lp0 and no data are available, it immediately returns reporting EOF (0 bytes read) instead of waiting for the data. Does any

[RFC] USB driver for talking to the Microchip PIC18 boot loader

2007-12-29 Thread mgross
I'm playing around with a PIC based project at home (not an Intel activity) and found I needed a usb driver to talk to the boot loader so I can program my USB Bitwhacker with new custom firmware. The following adds the pic18bl driver to the kernel. Its pretty simple and is somewhat based on bits

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-29 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:07:30PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > On Dec 29, 2007 1:06 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 29, 2007 12:42 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:36:49AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > > > > > > > The full boot dmesg w