Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754349AbZCEGyg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:54:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752592AbZCEGy1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:54:27 -0500 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([93.163.65.50]:42534 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752717AbZCEGy0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:54:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:54:23 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Jim Paris , Vivien Chappelier , David Woodhouse , Arnd Bergmann , Geoff Levand , Linux/PPC Development , Cell Broadband Engine OSS Development , Linux Kernel Development , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ps3/block: Add ps3vram-ng driver for accessing video RAM as block device Message-ID: <20090305065423.GK11787@kernel.dk> References: <1236209255.6696.75.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1236209255.6696.75.camel@pasglop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1478 Lines: 35 On Thu, Mar 05 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Below is the rewrite of the PS3 Video RAM Storage Driver as a plain block > > device, as requested by Arnd Bergmann. > > > > The MTD-based PS3 Video RAM Storage Driver was integrated into the mainline > > kernel in 2.6.29-rc1. > > > > Ideally, we think it would be best if the existing MTD-based ps3vram driver > > would be replaced by the new block-based ps3vram driver before 2.6.29 is > > released. This would relieve the burden of supporting two different swap space > > schemes on PS3 (swap on /dev/mtdblock0 vs. /dev/ps3vram) from the distro > > maintainer's shoulders, as in that case there would never have been a stable > > kernel version containing the MTD-based ps3vram driver. > > This is very very very late ... we are at rc7, probably one rc before > final... as much as I like integrating drivers later, I'll ask Linus > opinion on this one. > > Linus ? What do you reckon ? Maybe a better option is just to remove > ps3nvram from .29 and merge the new one in .30 ? It's an isolated driver for a special purpose platform, I would have zero problems merging it :-) -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/