Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with AllNet

["Paul L. George\(Office\)" <pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian, 

I have been in contact with the COMPTROL Linux Engineer and he gave me is
personal contact information.  We seemed to have figured out the wiring
problems at the adaptor.  Don has gotten the main servers to talk to each
other.  I have to make another adaptor so we can cross connect both servers.
We are working on getting 2 test servers ready to talk to the Comtrol serial
mux.

Comtrol  has told me that they will not be submitting the latest driver to
Linux, they will always be 3rd party and available on the Comtrol site.
They make so many changes so often it just is not practical based on the
conversation we just had.  It is company policy.  Maybe someone from the
foundation can have a conversation with someone higher up that I can reach.

We are making progress!!

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Koch [mailto:dkoch@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:15 PM
To: Ian Jackson
Cc: 'Lars Kurth'; wg-test-framework@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with AllNet

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:09:38 +0000
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Don Koch writes ("Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with
AllNet"):
> > Found a new driver on their site (after going through a bad "not 
> > there" link).  Built and it seems to find the ports. Not yet talking 
> > to the other side, yet.
> 
> I'm uncomfortable about the idea of an out-of-tree kernel module, 
> unless it's absolutely necessary.
> 
> If it's just a missing PCI ID can we not just use the modalias system 
> to cause the existing driver to recognise the device ?

IIUC, no, we can't use the modalias system. It already maps all rocketport
boards to the rocket driver. The actual code checks for the device ID and
0x0061 is not in the list. We'd either have to modify the rocket driver or
use the one provided by the vendor.

> Ian.

-d


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