Merging of Min Xu's patches

Dear Min Xu, Dear simtrace community, my sincere apologies for not getting around to merging your patches for what turned out to become more than a year. This is not intentional, but running a small company under constant overload left me with very little spare time and way too many neglected responsibilities towards the community projects :( I have finally taken some time to review, split/clean-up and merge the your patches. They are available in the 'minux-fixes' branch of openpcd.git, where the simtrace firmware is maitained for historical reasons. I didn't really (intend to) make any logical changes, but simply split it up in much smaller chunks, making sure that each patch really only addresses one issue, and also making sure that there are no unneeded whitespace changes in the change log. I have merged everything but the protocol change. For that, in order to have at least backwards compatibility from new host tools, we need to use the interfaceVersion as indicated by Peter Stuge earlier in this thread. I hope to be able to look at that before yet another year expires. If anyone wants to help out, I would appreciate patches for the following tasks: * forward-porting of min xu's protocol changes, but ** ensuring that the openpcd bulds still use the old protocol ** only simtrace builds should use the new protocol ** increment the bInterfaceVersion (for the simtrace builds only), once the change is made in the protocol * updating the simtrace host utility to check for bInterfaceVersion and provide code for both old and new protocol * ensure that changes to quantity and size of req_ctx apply only to simtrace builds, not to openpcd builds. Once all those issues are adressed, we can merge it into master. Please send a short message to this list if any of you is working on the above. p.s.: In other news, sysmocom has meanwhile produced and distributed close to 700 simtrace units. As it is a true open hardware project, we may not know how many others have built it themselves, using the schematics, bom and layout files provided. I would have never guessed that there are _that_ many people who have an interest in such an absolute 'niche' device. The only sad part is that despite that many users, we didn't get as many contributions. Neither on the wireshark dissector side, nor on the firmware side. Regards, Harald -- - Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)