On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:00:16PM -0700, greg@kroah.com wrote:
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> Here's 3 patches that adds USB-IP functionality code to the kernel tree.
> 
> It is against 2.6.27-rc4, and has been added to the -staging tree.  If
> there are no major objections, I'll also queue it up in the usb tree for
> submission into 2.6.28.
> 
> The code is based on Takahiro's great work that has been sitting outside
> of the kernel for many many years now.  Brian Merrell took the most
> recent version of the code, cleaned it up and sent it to me.  I did more
> cleanup and split the patch into 3 pieces, making it a bit easier to
> work with.
> 
> There are still a number of checkpatch.pl warnings/errors emitted, and
> Brian said he would work on them in the upcoming weeks, but they don't
> distract from the basic functionality and a good review would be nice to
> have.

I will indeed continue to work on getting rid of the checkpatch.pl
warnings/errors during the upcoming weeks.  I already eliminated the
ones I could figure out without too much effort;  I am sure the
remaining ones are trivial to many of you out there, so I welcome
any suggestions.

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> 
> We do need some more documentation for how to use this code (you need
> the tools at usbip.sf.net), and how the sysfs files are exporting data
> to userspace.  Brian, can you write up the sysfs interface in the format
> that Documentation/ABI/ details and also provide some kind of basic
> HOWTO to include in the kernel source tree?

Yes, I would be happy to work on this.

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> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks,
Brian G. Merrell
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