Re: [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 13:42 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 23:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:09:05 +0200 Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:04 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:00:10 +0200
> > > > Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 18:23 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 06:16 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This is a repost of my patches for 2.6.39 inclusion, which I hope not to
> > > > > > > miss this time.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I addressed the comments on the scatterlist issues.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Andrew, please note that my richoh memstick driver is standalone, unchanged from previos versions
> > > > > > > has many users which use the version I posted at ubuntu's Launchpad and happy with it.
> > > > > > > Please include it regardless of other patches.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > The other half of my work is support for legacy memorysticks which consists of 2 patches,
> > > > > > > first that adds few functions to scatterlist.c, and the other patch that adds the driver.
> > > > > > > Driver is also stable and tested.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > > > 	Maxim Levitsky
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Any update?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any update?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm hoping that Alex will soon have time to (re)review these patches.
> > > 
> > > Andrew Morton, what the current state now?
> > > 
> > 
> > Technical discussion is ongoing.  James has described what appears to
> > be the architecturally preferred way of implementing this and there is
> > as yet no followup to his suggestion.
> > 
> 
> But I will at least see my r592 driver in kernel?
> It doesn't depend on ether ms legacy driver nor on changes in
> scatterlist.c
> 
> Also, I don't have much time now to improve the ms_block driver till
> this summer (studying).
> The driver works. Yes it has a flaw in regard to scatterlist processing,
> because I didn't find a better way to deal with this monster, but I will
> fix that later. I am not the kind of guy that runs away after a merge.
> It would be nice to just see my code in kernel, code I wrote more that a
> year ago.
> 
> This flaw is purely theoretical. Driver does work.
> 
> One of the ways to fix this is just use plain good kernel pointers.
> Yes that means bouncing of high mem, but like they say "to hell with
> that". The driver deals with legacy, and quite slow devices, so there
> won't be any performance difference.
> Besides, my other driver for that card reader, for xD portion, does
> precisely that (more correctly common code in FTL frontend, the
> mtd_blkdev.c does that) and the end result is quite good.
> 
> 
> So, I am waiting for a word from you,
Any update?


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