linux-kernel - Re: [2/3][PATCH][v2] TDM Framework

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Message-ID: <20120801123738.GA28291@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2012 05:37:38 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Singh Sandeep-B37400 <B37400@...escale.com>
Cc:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"galak@...nel.crashing.org" <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2/3][PATCH][v2] TDM Framework

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:13:19PM +0000, Singh Sandeep-B37400 wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:50:57AM +0000, Singh Sandeep-B37400 wrote:
> > > 1. You should send some kernel mode TDM clients. Without those the
> > framework
> > >    is pretty useless.
> > > [Sandeep] We do have a test client but not good enough to be pushed in
> > > open source, should we add it to documentation??
> > 
> > Then how do you know if the framework is "correct" and good enough for
> > real clients?  We don't add frameworks, or apis, to the kernel without
> > users, so you will have to come up with some users before we can accept
> > it.
> We can only say that this framework is available in FSL BSPs and being used by VoIP companies.
> But running a complete voice stack itself is beyond the scope of Freescale.
> So vendors integrate their solutions with FSL solution.
> To test the framework we have a small application in our BSP (this is a very basic test client) which tests the TDM driver and the SLIC interface from voice  transfer perspective.
> We can get this added in the Linux codebase in some test directory. What could be a good place for this?

tools/ is a good place for that.

And sorry, I was thinking you had kernel drivers that attached to this
framework, not userspace programs.  Actually, what is the user/kernel
interface for this framework, I seem to have missed that entirely.  You
will have to document that quite well, and run it by the linux-api
mailing list.

thanks,

greg k-h
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