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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:19:17 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070615.141917.85409547.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615171545.316dfac7@the-village.bc.nu>

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:15:45 +0100

> > > Any particular reason why this is done as a separate block device driver
> > > rather than as SCSI?
> > 
> > Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore.
> 
> Where did drivers/ata come from ;)
> 
> How about making it a fake ata driver if James is being fussy 8)

That sounds like a good idea for my virtual I/O case on
Niagara too actually :-)

Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you
can export full disks and also just slices.  So I'll have
to get down into the partition machinery to support that
somehow.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-15 11:39 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 2 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 13:27   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:32     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 2/6] ps3: Storage Driver Core Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 3/6] PS3: Storage device registration routines Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 14:35   ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 14:41     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:43     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 16:15       ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 18:05         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:19         ` David Miller [this message]
2007-06-15 22:40           ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:08             ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:28               ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:37                 ` David Miller
2007-06-19  5:56               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19  6:07                 ` David Miller
2007-06-19  8:15                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 23:11           ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16  6:21           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19  5:53           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19  6:03             ` David Miller
2007-06-19  7:06               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:17       ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:28         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:37           ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:50         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:55           ` David Miller
2007-06-19  5:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:51     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 17:19       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 5/6] ps3: ROM " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19  5:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 6/6] ps3: FLASH " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven

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