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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:28:01 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	david-b@...bell.net, khilman@...prootsystems.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] USB patches for 2.6-git

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:23:08PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Greg KH wrote:
>
>> Here is the set of USB patches for the 2.6.29-rc1 merge.
>>
>> They also include the wimax patches, because of a dependancy on a change
>> in the USB core to support one of the wimax drivers.  The wimax patch
>> set has been acked by the network maintainers already, and they agreed
>> that it should go through the USB tree to you.
>>
>> Other than wimax, the patchset includes:
>> 	- some new USB drivers (gadget, host, and serial)
>> 	- USB OTG (on-the-go) device support
>> 	- lots of device id updates
>> 	- renaming in the i2c drivers to move into the proper location
>> 	  in the usb tree
>> 	- usb-storage quirk handling cleaned up and reworked
>> 	- sped up the option wireless usb driver speed.
>> 	- removal of info() and warn() usb macros now that the non-usb	  portions 
>> of the kernel have removed their usage of them.
>> 	- lots of minor tweaks and reworks.
>>
>> Please pull from:
>> 	master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6.git/
>>
>> All of these patches have been in the -next and -mm releases for a while.
>>
>> The full patches will be sent to the linux-usb mailing list, if anyone
>> wants to see them.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>   
>
> [...]
>
>> Kevin Hilman (1):
>>       USB: musb: build fixes for DaVinci
>>   
>
>   NAK this patch. I and David Brownell have asked Greg to pull this totally 
> broken patch (broken while in MUSB tree, the original patch was sane) from 
> his tree and all to no avail...
> The patch doesn't fix anything and only adds more breakage as it duplicates 
> musb_platform_set_mode().

{sigh}

I'll fix this up after Linus pulls, sorry about that.

>   I am dissatisfied how MUSB patches have been handled in general -- this 
> is not the first breakage, and the valid patches have been lost, so DaVinci 
> MUSB code keeps being broken since early 2.6.27-rc's (!) up to this time...

I agree, there's a big disconnect somewhere, I'm sorry about that.  I
now see David's request to change this patch in my archives :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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