linux-kernel - Re: Is anyone maintaining (or even using) usbtmc?

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Message-ID: <20090806153818.GB27153@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:38:18 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Zimmermann Christoph <christoph.zimmermann@....ch>
Cc:	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is anyone maintaining (or even using) usbtmc?

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:19:38PM +0200, Zimmermann Christoph wrote:
> i've asked also some of your questions two month ago.
> 
> i'm a tmc driver user only. i use it to develop my firmware for a
> cypress fx2 based tmc device.
> 
> i've made some bugreporting to greg and to the mailinglist (now i'm not
> sure anymore if all my mails arrived on the mailinglist. the gmame
> archive does not list all mails. the other archives are even worse).
> 
> since then two ore tree small patches are sent to the mailinglist. but
> none seemed to adress my bugs (one patch was about a memory leak)
> 
> > If the answer is no (as I suspect it is), then I might give fixing it
> > a shot the week after next, when I'll be camping out in Virginia with
> > this thing for awhile.  In that case, I have another question:
> 
> do it. greg is the maintainer of the whole usb stuff and is working
> really hard. so i understand that he only has little time on "our"
> usbtmc bugs. in my opionion it's good when you do it to help greg with
> it. he still is the maintainer and has to sign of your patches.

Yes, any patches you can provide for this driver would be most
appreciated.

> the other thing is, that i belive, please correct me, that greg don't
> has an usbtmc device to test with. for me it seems that there is lack
> of testing in the usbtmc driver. thats why i assume this.

No, I do have a device, I just don't really have a userspace program to
strongly stress it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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