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Message-ID: <20161121122241.GA16158@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:22:41 +0100 From: "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: "Levy, Amir (Jer)" <amir.jer.levy@...el.com> Cc: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@...uanux.org>, "andreas.noever@...il.com" <andreas.noever@...il.com>, "bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, "corbet@....net" <corbet@....net>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, "mario_limonciello@...l.com" <mario_limonciello@...l.com>, thunderbolt-linux <thunderbolt-linux@...el.com>, "Westerberg, Mika" <mika.westerberg@...el.com>, "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>, "Zhang, Xiong Y" <xiong.y.zhang@...el.com>, "Jamet, Michael" <michael.jamet@...el.com>, "remi.rerolle@...gate.com" <remi.rerolle@...gate.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] thunderbolt: Introducing Thunderbolt(TM) Networking On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 06:30:19AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18 2016, 12:07 PM, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:48:36AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote: > > > > BTW, it is quite a shame that the Thunderbolt firmware version can't > > > > be read from Linux. > > > > > > > > > > This is WIP, once this patch will be upstream, we will be able to > > > focus more on aligning Linux with the Thunderbolt features that we have > > for windows. > > > > Why is this patch somehow holding that work back? You aren't just sitting > > around waiting for people to review this and not doing anything else, right? > > Is there some basic building block in these patches that your firmware > > download code is going to rely on? > > > > confused, > > > > greg k-h > > All the Thunderbolt SW features (including networking and FW update) depend > on the communication with FW, which is patch 3/8 in the series. > The patch also sets up a generic netlink for user space communication. It's that "generic netlink" connection that I really want a whole lot of revewers to read over as it's very unusual and "different" from all other driver subsystems. thanks, greg k-h
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