[PATCH] usb-serial: add support for USB Wishbone-serial adapters

2013-04-11 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
Wishbone is an open hardware SoC bus commonly used in FPGA designs. Bus access can be serialized using the Etherbone protocol http://www.ohwr.org/projects/etherbone-core. This driver is intended to be used with devices which attach their internal Wishbone bus to a USB serial interface using the

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: add support for USB Wishbone-serial adapters

2013-04-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: Wishbone is an open hardware SoC bus commonly used in FPGA designs. Bus access can be serialized using the Etherbone protocol http://www.ohwr.org/projects/etherbone-core. This driver is intended to be used with devices which

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: add support for USB Wishbone-serial adapters

2013-04-11 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 06:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote: I only have one very minor question about the code: +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/wishbone-serial.c @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +/* + * USB Wishbone-Serial adapter driver + * + * Copyright (C) 2013 Wesley W. Terpstra w.terps...@gsi.de + *

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: add support for USB Wishbone-serial adapters

2013-04-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:54:47PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 06:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote: I only have one very minor question about the code: +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/wishbone-serial.c @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +/* + * USB Wishbone-Serial adapter driver + *

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: add support for USB Wishbone-serial adapters

2013-04-11 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 08:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: Fair enough, although this driver would probably be the least of our worries if that were to happen :) Of course. Documenation/stable_api_nonsense.txt Tactfully named. :) Is there a document that describes how to track the progress a patch

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: add support for USB Wishbone-serial adapters

2013-04-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:30:52PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: Is there a document that describes how to track the progress a patch makes on its way to a released kernel version? I understand that subsystem maintainers aggregate changes which then are aggregated in turn by Linus, but