linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Add Marvell UMI driver

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Message-ID: <20110509122051.33f1672f@jbarnes-desktop>
Date:	Mon, 9 May 2011 12:20:51 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Jianyun Li <jianyunff@...il.com>
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...e.de, Jianyun Li <jyli@...vell.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org (open list:SCSI SUBSYSTEM),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list),
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org (open list:PCI SUBSYSTEM)
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add Marvell UMI driver

On Mon,  9 May 2011 20:19:33 +0800
Jianyun Li <jianyunff@...il.com> wrote:

> 	The Marvell Universal Message Interface (UMI) defines a messaging
> interface between host and Marvell products (Plato, for example). It
> considers situations of limited system resource and optimized system
> performance.
> 	UMI driver translates host request to message and sends message
> to FW via UMI, FW receives message and processes it, then sends response
> to UMI driver.
> 	FW generates an interrupt when it needs to send information or
> response to UMI driver
> 

Unless you're using the PCI ID outside of this driver, you can just put
it in your header file rather than pci_ids.h, which is meant for IDs
that are shared between modules.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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